Book Chapter

Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Equality and inequality
• Inflation
• Macroeconomics

Research Brief

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, poor in natural resources, and with low levels of human development. Its economy remains agricultural and focused on food crops and cotton production. Over the last twenty years it has experienced...

• Agriculture
• Equality and inequality
• Food security

Research Brief

The impact of the 2007–08 food price crisis in Brazil was relatively subdued compared with what took place in many other developing countries. Because the crisis potentially undermined both social inclusion and price stability, both important...

• Agriculture
• Food industry and trade
• Inflation

Journal Article

International economic integration has been a central policy goal for the Vietnam government since the doi moi reform was initiated in 1986. We explore the Vietnamese increasing integration into the world market and bouts of high inflation. Five...

• Economic integration
• Inflation
• Prices

Working Paper

Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This paper aims to...

• Equality and inequality
• Inflation
• Macroeconomics

Working Paper

Using a survey of 300 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), we argue that the acceleration of inflation in China after 1984 was caused by the decentralization reforms in the state sector. These reforms allowed the SOEs to realize their innate tendencies to...

• Budget deficits
• Economic growth
• Government business enterprises

Working Paper

• Public debt
• Fiscal policy
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

Four "gaps" or restrictions on capacity growth -- from available saving and foreign exchange, investment demand (with crowding-in of private by public capital formation), and ex ante discrepancies between inflation rates needed on the one hand to...

• Balance of payments
• Capital budget
• Foreign exchange

Working Paper

• Fiscal policy
• Foreign exchange
• Free trade

Working Paper

India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007–08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India’s ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of G8...

• Agriculture
• Food security
• Inflation

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America

• Inflation
• Interest rate
• Monetary policy

Book Chapter

Part of Book Financial Openness and National Autonomy

• Fiscal policy
• Foreign exchange
• Free trade

Book Chapter

Part of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone

• Central banking
• Econometric models
• Inflation

Book Chapter

Part of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone

• Central banking
• Econometrics
• Inflation

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue The CFA Franc Zone 10 Years After Devaluation

• Central banking
• Econometric models
• Inflation