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The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Opportunities and Challenges »
Source: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Opportunities and Challenges
Volume/Issue: 2003/69
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Saleh Nsouli , and Norbert Funke
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 2003
ISBN: 9781451849080
Keywords: NEPAD, Integration, fdi, macroeconomic stability, foreign direct investment, direct investment, market access, Economic Development: General, Economywide Country Studies: Africa,
This paper reviews major issues involved in achieving the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Using a simple framework for evaluation, the analysis highlights considerations relevant...
Foreign Direct Investment in Africa-Some Case Studies »
Source: Foreign Direct Investment in Africa-Some Case Studies
Volume/Issue: 2002/61
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Anupam Basu , and Krishna Srinivasan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 2002
ISBN: 9781451848182
Keywords: stability, fdi, foreign investment, investors, foreign investors, direct investment,
This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote polit...
Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa »
Source: Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa : Past Performance and the Way Forward
Volume/Issue: 2005/36
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yongzheng Yang , and Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2005
ISBN: 9781451860559
Keywords: Regional Trade Arrangements, regional integration, regional trade, trade liberalization, intraregional trade, Simulation Methods, Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance: Forecasting and Simulation,
Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries...
Statistical Legislation »
Source: Statistical Legislation : Toward a More General Framework
Volume/Issue: 2002/179
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Sarmad Khawaja , and Thomas Morrison
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2002
ISBN: 9781451859041
Keywords: Statistical legislation, official statistics, statistics, law, statistical information, statistical system, surveys, Other Special Topics: General,
The paper outlines a general framework for statistical legislation. The implications of statistical legislation for the whole statistical system, as well as for centralized versus decentralized statistical systems,...
The Impact of Economic Securityon Bank Deposits and Investment1 »
Source: The Impact of Economic Securityon Bank Deposits and Investment
Volume/Issue: 1998/98
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Michael Fabricius
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 1998
ISBN: 9781451852110
Keywords: Economic Security, Institutions, Bank Deposits, institutional variables, correlation, explanatory power, institutional quality, standard deviation
This paper highlights the importance of institutions in explaining the variation of investment rates and of two measures of bank deposits across countries. A general index of economic security is created for 130 co...
CHAPTER 2. Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa »
Source: Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Sanjeev Gupta , and Yongzheng Yang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589064393
Keywords: Trade, Trade policy, trade liberalization, intraregional trade, regional integration, trade barriers, regional trade
A. Global Background RTAs have been proliferating exponentially throughout the world. Nearly all countries now participate in at least one RTA, and approximately 300 RTAs, both bilat...
CHAPTER 4. Policy Implications »
Source: Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Sanjeev Gupta , and Yongzheng Yang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589064393
Keywords: Trade, Trade policy, trade liberalization, intraregional trade, regional integration, trade barriers, regional trade
The generally disappointing record of African RTAs warrants a reexamination of the underlying assumptions. Is the record disappointing because no preconditions were established to make the RTAs beneficial, d...
Back Matter »
Source: Trade and Trade Policies in Eastern and Southern Africa
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Arvind Subramanian
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2000
ISBN: 9781557759429
Keywords: trade liberalization, monopoly, trade taxes, export taxes, export performance
Since the early 1990s, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made significant progress in opening their economies to external competition through trade and currency liberalization. This paper analyzes trade and...