Assessing Competitiveness and Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Low-Income Countries /

Assessing a country's competitiveness routinely starts with an analysis of the real exchange rate. However, in low-income countries, empirical analysis of the real exchange rate is often subject to important limitations that seriously weaken the results. This paper summarizes the methodologies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Mark
Other Authors: Di Bella, Gabriel, Martin, Aurelie
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/201
Online Access:Full text available on IMF