Are African Current Account Deficits Different? : Stylized Facts, Transitory Shocks, and Decomposition Analysis /

This paper analyzes the behavior of current account deficits in Africa and estimates whether the deficits are excessive with respect to fundamentals. The findings are the deficits are (i) not very persistent; (ii) positively linked with domestic growth; (iii) strongly linked with public (and private...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Zanforlin, Luisa
مؤلفون آخرون: Calderon, Cesar, Chong, Alberto
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/004
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF

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