Islamic Republic Of Mauritania: Selected Issues

January 22, 2003

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Islamic Republic Of Mauritania: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper covers three topics of particular relevance to Mauritania: export competitiveness and exchange rate policy, the monetary policy framework, and the transfer of government deposits from commercial banks to the central bank. The paper reports on the recent economic developments over 1999–2001. It describes a stable macroeconomic environment with robust growth, low inflation, manageable current account deficits, and a comfortable level of gross foreign reserves. The paper also looks at the issue of export competitiveness and exchange rate policy.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Exports, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, International trade, Monetary base, Money, Real effective exchange rates

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Commercial banks, CR, Credit, Credit auction, Credit crunch, Deposit, East Africa, Europe, Export, Exports, Global, Government deposit, ISCR, Mauritania, Middle East, Monetary base, Private sector deposit, Real effective exchange rates, Trade partner

Publication Details

Pages:

58
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/015
Stock No:

1MRTEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451827507
ISSN:

1934-7685

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