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Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area

By Jorge I Canales Kriljenko, Farayi Gwenhamo, Saji Thomas

January 31, 2013

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Jorge I Canales Kriljenko, Farayi Gwenhamo, and Saji Thomas. Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to systematically affect growth developments in BLNS countries as a group. Nevertheless, vector autoregressions, which allow country-specific parameters, suggest some strong spillovers onto the smaller economies.

Subject: Exports, Financial sector policy and analysis, Foreign exchange, Imports, International trade, Real exchange rates, Spillovers, Terms of trade

Keywords: Africa, Amount South Africa, BLNS country, Exports, Global, Imports, Imports from the world, Intra SACU trade, Intraregional trade distribution, Real exchange rates, SACU area, SACU Customs revenue formula, South Africa act, South Africa import, South Africa's Gdp, Southern Africa, Spillovers, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa economy, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    24

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2013/031

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2013031

  • ISBN:

    9781475522419

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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