Terms of Trade Shocks in Africa : Are they Short-Lived or Long-Lived? /
This paper examines the persistence of shocks to the terms of trade, using annual data on 42 Sub-Saharan African countries between 1960-96. We find that the persistence of terms of trade shocks varies widely-for about half the countries such shocks are short-lived, while for one-third of the countri...
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Lenguaje: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2000.
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Colección: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2000/072 |
Acceso en línea: | Full text available on IMF |