Exchange Rate Assessment in a Resource-Dependent Economy : The Case of Botswana /

The paper combines various methodologies to assessing the level of the exchange rate in Botswana, explicitly taking into account the implications of its dependency on diamond exports. Real exchange rate estimation indicates that, after a period of overvaluation, Botswana's real effective exchan...

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Glavni autor: Delechat, Corinne
Daljnji autori: Gaertner, Matthew
Format: Žurnal
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/083
Online pristup:Full text available on IMF
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