Burundi: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Burundi: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2004-02-17

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1451802862

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The strategy underlying the Arusha agreement envisaged a three-year transition period, involving further national reconciliation steps, implementation of lasting power-sharing arrangements, and initiation of national reconstruction. To overcome poverty, Burundi should diversify its economy and establish new sources of economic growth. The increasing regional integration will also help to accelerate economic growth. The parallel market in Burundi is still sizable, and the exchange rate differential remains a source of financial distortion. The statistical data of economic indices of Burundi are presented in this paper.

Zimbabwe: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Zimbabwe: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Published: 2005-10-04

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781451841503

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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes recent trends in poverty and social indicators for Zimbabwe. It discusses land reform, agricultural policies, and the outcomes. The paper presents background information on the evolution of inflation and money aggregates in Zimbabwe. It analyzes the demand of money since the late 1990s, and discusses factors that can lead to diverging paths of inflation and money growth in the short term. The paper also analyzes Zimbabwe's export performance in recent years, and identifies the factors that could improve export performance, from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective.

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2001-01-11

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1451841469

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The combination of wavering domestic policies, governance problems, and costly deployment of troops to support the Democratic Republic of Congo government has seriously affected economic performance and investor confidence. Exchange rate policy continues to be a key issue in Zimbabwe. This paper conducted an empirical analysis of the determinants of the equilibrium real exchange rate (ERER) for Zimbabwe. The results show that the overvaluation in Zimbabwe is sensitive to lax fiscal policy, suggesting that devaluation needs to be underpinned by a tightening of fiscal policy.