Tracking Short-Term Dynamics of Economic Activity in Low-Income Countries in the Absence of High-Frequency Gdp Data /

This paper uses a set of routinely collected high-frequency data in low-income countries (LICs) to construct an aggregate and a comprehensive index of economic activity which could serve (i) as a measure of the direction of economic activity; and (ii) as a useful input in analyzing contemporaneous r...

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Tác giả chính: Dixit, S. V. S.
Tác giả khác: Opoku-Afari, Maxwell
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/119
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF
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