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  The Effects of Hyper-Inflation on Accounting Ratios Financing Corporate Growth in Industrial Economies

  International Finance Corporation, 1997

  Hyper-inflation can have a severe distortionary effect on the pattern of corporate finance which is apparent from company accounts. A simple algorithm, based upon the method of inflation accounting applied in Brazil, is developed and applied to the accounts of listed companies in Turkey for the period 1982-90.
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  External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries - Lessons from Their Experience

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998

  The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s.
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  Stabilization, adjustment and growth prospects in transition economies

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Employment, Labor Markets, and Poverty in Ghana: A Study of Changes during Economic Decline and Recovery

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  An awareness on the part of policymakers that the formal sector is only a small part of Ghana's labor market is a necessary precondition of appropriate employment policy.
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  Financial sector adjustment lending : a mid - course analysis

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Transient seasonal and chronic poverty of peasants : evidence from Rwanda

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices,  for different poverty line, poverty indicators, equivalence scale, and with and without the corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. We also estimate sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worse poverty crises occur after the dry season at the end of the year.
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  Does "getting prices right" work? : micro evidence from Ghana

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  The question posed in this paper is whether structural adjustment programs have had the consequences policy intended and theory predicts. It uses evidence from a micro survey of manufacturing firms in Ghana to assess whether policy has effected an expansion of the exportable sector within manufacturing, the growth of small firms and an increase in exports and investment.
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  Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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  The Asian crisis and Human Development

  East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1988

  Paper aims to analyse the nature of pro-Human Development adjustment in the five countries seriously affected by the crisis: Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The effects of the crisis on Human Development depend critically on macro-economic developments.
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  Policy Rules and Bidding Behaviour in the Ethiopian Foreign Exchange Auction

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998

  Ethiopia adopted a repeated Dutch auction for foreign exchange in May, 1993. Various African countries with rudimentary financial systems and thin foreign exchange markets have successfully employed auctions in transition from centralised, controlled systems to decentralised interbank markets. This paper characterises the rules, regime shifts and auction outcomes in Ethiopia.

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