The South African Economy Macroeconomic prospects for the medium term

What are the macroeconomic prospects for South Africa until the new millennium? Two methods of macroeconomic modelling, associated with the World Bank and IMF, are used here to generate three scenarios, based on moderately optimistic projections. The methodology used can be applied to other developi...

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Hauptverfasser: Brixen, Peter, Tarp, Finn
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Routledge 1996
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis
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Schriftenreihe:Routledge Studies in Development Economics
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ISBN:0415142601, 9780415142601, 9780203982051, 1134765428, 113476541X, 9781134765423, 9781134765379, 0203982053, 9781134765416, 1134765371
ISSN:1359-7884
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  • Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Table and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GENERAL COUNTRY BACKGROUND -- Macroeconomic features and trend -- Socio-economic characteristics -- Legacies of apartheid in perspective -- Policy frameworks -- 3. ACCOUNTING FRAMEWORK AND BASE YEAR DATA -- Prices and exchange rates -- Material balance -- Balance of payments -- Money market -- Government accounts -- Other variables -- Disaggregated GDP and export data -- Conclusion -- 4. MODELLING FRAMEWORKS -- The financial programming approach of the IMF -- The Revised Minimum Standard Model of the World Bank -- Discussion -- 5. MODEL EXPERIMENTS -- Experiment 1: Exchange rate depreciation -- Experiment 2: Government external borrowing -- Experiment 3: Foreign reserves -- Experiment 4: Domestic inflation -- Experiment 5: GDP growth -- Experiment 6: Export quantity versus export price -- Conclusion -- 6. BASE RUN -- Background -- Demand and supply -- Prices and exchange rates -- Balance of payments -- Government accounts -- Asset stocks -- Conclusion -- 7. ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS -- Introduction -- Alternative assumptions -- Results -- Summing-up -- 8. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A: Modelling frameworks in GAMS -- A.1 Introduction -- A.2 Financial Programming Framework -- A.3 The Revised Minimum Standard Model -- APPENDIX Β: BASE RUN -- APPENDIX C: OPTIMISTIC SCENARIO -- APPENDIX D: PESSIMISTIC SCENARIO -- Bibliography -- Index