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This paper analyzes the potential impact of agricultural trade liberalization on sub-Saharan Africa. We used the Agricultural Trade and Policy Simulation Model to estimate the potential effects of agricultural trade liberalization, mainly in the Uni…
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"When Ghana's first mining-specific legislation, PNDC Law 153, was enacted in 1986, the law was heralded as a shining example of best practice by many. The legislation sought to provide a stable policy environment in addition to significant financi…
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The prices of non-renewable commodities rebounded during the first four months of 2016, after registering significant declines in 2015, resulting in a key question for many countries and economic stakeholders: can November 2015 be regarded as the lo…
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Ce document est disponible en Français aussi : Tendances et cyclicité du prix des matières premières (partie 1) : le débat sur l’hypothèse de Prebisch-Singer. Dealing with the dynamics of commodity prices requires the characterization of three p…
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This title is also available in English. Dealing with the dynamics of commodity prices requires the characterization of three phenomena to which they are subject: (very) long-term trends, medium / long-term cycles and short-term variability / volati…
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A study that was conducted in some of the SADC countries in order to seek to understand how from 2003 to 2011 the boom in natural resource prices has impacted the economies of these countries and also how they are coping against the fall in the pric…
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This study examines the impact of international commodity price changes, measured in local currency, on consumer prices in Sierra Leone. Monthly data from January 2007 to August 2016 are used to examine the long-run relationship and the short-run dy…
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This paper examines whether gold and crude oil are used as diversifying, hedging or as safe haven assets against stock markets and exchange rate volatility in selected African countries. We use daily data for South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria from 4th…
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This policy note investigates the recent spike in laundry soap and cooking oil prices in Uganda between June 2021 and March 2022. The upsurge primarily explained the price increase in the price of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) −the key raw material for makin…
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