Author: Michael AtingiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Uganda's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate and Its Implications for Non-traditional Export Performance
Author: Michael AtingiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exports
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Uganda's Economic Reforms
Author: Florence KuteesaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199556229
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
In recent years Uganda has consistently been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, leading to a substantial reduction in poverty. This book looks at how the country managed to carry out this economic transformation in the wake of Idi Amin's rule and the civil war of the 1980s.
Uganda's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate and Its Implications for Non-traditional Export Performance
Author: Rachel Kaggwa SebuddePublisher:
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Category : Balance of payments
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
"Pursuit of an exchange rate policy that promotes the competitiveness of exports would be greatly facilitated if the policy maker were able to establish the level of misalignment of the exchange rate and thereby try to correct for it. The motivation of this study for Uganda was therefore to derive the equilibrium exchange rate path, determine the levels of misalignment of the exchange rate and assess their impact on the performance of nontraditional exports. Estimating the equilibrium real exchange rate (ERER) involved: (a) estimation of the real effective exchange rate (REER) by the cointegration and the error correction mechanism (ECM) approaches, (b) filtering transitory factors from the "fundamentals" using the Hodrick-Prescott filter approach and the Elbadawi moving average (MA) methodology, and (c) estimating the ERER using the permanent components of the fundamentals. We find that the magnitude of misalignment, derived as the deviation of REER from ERER, greatly reduced during the period 1991-1999, when the exchange and payments system was liberalized as part of the overall improved macroeconomic management. Further, given that over-valuation of the exchange rate in excess of 15% hampers non-traditional export performance, our results suggest that the exchange rate policy should aim at minimizing over-valuation and, in fact, albeit the inflation objective, over-depreciate REER to boost non-traditional export competitiveness. An explicit estimate of the equilibrium exchange rate is therefore an important variable in exchange rate policy and export competitiveness debates"--African Economic Research Consortium web site.
Exchange Rate Liberalization in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries Successes, Failures, and Lessons
Author: Mr.Nils Øyvind MæhlePublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1557756694
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Many sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries liberalized their economies in the 1980s and early 1990s. This paper reviews the foreign exchange regime reforms in selected SSA, and their associated macroeconomic policies and economic performance during and after these reforms were undertaken. Before liberalization, most of the reviewed countries were characterized by extensive foreign exchange rationing, sizeable black market premiums, and declining per capita real income. Today, the countries that successfully reformed look markedly different. Rationing and parallel market spreads are a distant memory, and per capita income has increased sharply.
The Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate in Zambia
Author: Kombe Oswald MungulePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
Author: Ashoka ModyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135994579
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond the traditional literature on poverty, this original book deals with themes of broad interest to both scholars and policymakers in a clear yet technically sophisticated manner. Departing from conventional methods employed in poverty studies, these innovative essays enquire into the institutional characteristics of poverty, and using current case studies, they examine the crucial idea that periods of crises seriously affect poverty.
Bank of Uganda Staff Papers
Author: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Uganda
Author: Annual Report for ...
Author: African Economic Research ConsortiumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Macroeconomic and Distributional Consequences of Energy Supply Shocks in Nigeria
Author: Adeola F. AdenikinjuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description