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Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries

By Joannes Mongardini, Brett Rayner

April 1, 2009

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Joannes Mongardini, and Brett Rayner. Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

This paper builds on the methodology developed by Chudik and Mongardini (2007) to estimate the relationship between grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques. The results indicate that grants and remittances are not associated, in the long run, with an appreciation of the real effective exchange in SSA and are therefore not likely to give rise to Dutch disease effects. These findings suggest that grants and remittances may be serving to ease supply constraints or boost productivity in the non-tradable sector in the recipient economies.

Subject: Balance of payments, Foreign exchange, Real exchange rates, Remittances

Keywords: Africa, Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate, Exchange rate, Grant, Grant inflow, Grant spending, Grants, Official Development Assistance, Real exchange rates, Remittance spending, Remittances, Remittances to SSA country, Resource inflow, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    27

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2009/075

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2009075

  • ISBN:

    9781451872224

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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