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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: The Macroeconomics of Poverty
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Wednesday, 30 May 2012. The Macroeconomics of Poverty. A new conference has been announced on how to solve poverty and inequality in South Africa: http:/ www.carnegie3.org.za. In South Africa we have an extreme separation between political elite and economic elite along racial lines which is unique and make the political economy analysis very interestin...
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: African Economic Outlook
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Sunday, 09 May 2010. I have been asked to comment on the IMF Regional Economic Outlook. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pretoria, South Africa. Professor of Monetary Economics University of Pretoria nicola.viegi@up.ac.za. View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget.
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: Creditors' Morality and The Sack of Athens
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Monday, 04 June 2012. Creditors' Morality and The Sack of Athens. Thanks to Simon Wren Lewis for point this out here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pretoria, South Africa. Professor of Monetary Economics University of Pretoria nicola.viegi@up.ac.za. View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget.
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: Models and Policy
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Monday, 28 September 2009. I doubt it. On the contrary it will probably increase the confusion around objectives and efficiency of monetary policy. 29 September 2009 at 9:23 PM. In any case, what is conditionality anyway? It sounds to me like a way of getting out when you need it. Why not be transparent about the fact that you will need to get out?
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: What can we learn from Africa?
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Thursday, 03 September 2009. What can we learn from Africa? The basic idea behind my research is that it is possible to learn something about economics looking at the way African economies operate. Consider for example this paper with Maria Demertzis on Inflation Targeting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pretoria, South Africa.
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: South Africa Market Capitalization is off scale
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Friday, 29 August 2014. South Africa Market Capitalization is off scale. I am just noticing that South Africa market capitalization is double the size, relative to GDP, than any other country. This need to be explained. 29 August 2014 at 9:54 PM. If so, what is the appropriate MP response? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pretoria, South Africa.
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: Crisis and Institutional Reforms
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Monday, 04 June 2012. Crisis and Institutional Reforms. Paul Krugman is right (see. This is the reverse of what had happened in 1929 where the suffering of the people was the center of the collective imagination (think Steinbeck. Thus a reduction of the profitability of the financial industry is a necessary condition for financial stability (and it woul...
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: Music Box
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Friday, 13 November 2009. Let me use this blog also to archive whatever I find on the web that I might want to see again in the future. Let's start with this classic. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pretoria, South Africa. Professor of Monetary Economics University of Pretoria nicola.viegi@up.ac.za. View my complete profile.
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: Debt and Money - it is easier than you think
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Friday, 17 May 2013. Debt and Money - it is easier than you think. From now on I'll use this blog to signpost papers and articles that I need to remember and use. This paper is particularly interesting and ask the right question Debt, Money and Mephistopheles: how do we get out of this mess. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pretoria, South Africa.
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog: A bankruptcy law for sovereign state in EU
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An Accidental African Economist's Blog. A collection of progress reports, general reflections and brief reviews of economic research in and about Africa. Tuesday, 09 March 2010. A bankruptcy law for sovereign state in EU. I like to think at this issue as the design of a bankruptcy law for sovereign states. Bankruptcy laws are designed to achieve few contemporary objectives:. Minimize the negative spillover of failure of a firm (through orderly liquidiation). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
