01736cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021767 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 15.00 USD 9781616350536 0251-6365 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Prati, Alessandro. External Performance in Low-Income Countries / Alessandro Prati, Luca Ricci, Lone Engbo Christiansen, Stephen Tokarick. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (71 pages) Occasional Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Assessments of exchange rate misalignments and external imbalances for low-income countries are challenging because methodologies developed for advanced and emerging economies cannot be automatically applied to poorer nations. This paper uses a large database, unique in the set of indicators and number of countries it covers, to estimate the relationship in low-income countries between a set of fundamentals in the medium to long term and the real effective exchange rate, the current account, and the net external assets position. Mode of access: Internet Christiansen, Lone Engbo. Ricci, Luca. Tokarick, Stephen. Occasional Papers; Occasional Paper ; No. 272 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/books/084/11308-9781616350536-en/11308-9781616350536-en-book.xml IMF e-Library