Aid, Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Exchange Rate Regimes and Revenue Performance in Sub - Saharan Africa

It has been argued that the institutions of the CFA Franc zone may have reduced in°ation but that they also induced misalignment of the real exchange rate and that this is the explanation for their dismal revenue performance. This paper uses a panel of 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to estimate revenue performance over the period from 1980 to 1996. It ¯nds that the poor cumulative relative ...

Real Effective Exchange Rate and Trade Performance in Iran

The Purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-run effect of real effective exchange rate on Iran non-oil trade balance. The methodology is based on ARDL procedure that can be applied irrespective of whether the regressors are I(0) or I(1). The results show the real depreciation has not a favorable long - run effect on the non-oil trade balance of Iran from 1979 to 2001.

A New Generation of Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa?; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (NPCs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. We generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formall...

Effective Aid for Small Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Investigate the Real Effective Exchange Rate Misalignment in OPEC Member Countries

The effective real exchange rate is one of the variables that can Misalignment from equilibrium values, Performance affects macroeconomic indicators and creates an unstable and uncertain environment in the economy. Therefore, in order to investigate the factors affecting the real effective exchange rate Misalignment in OPEC member countries during the period 1980-1980, first, in the framework o...