Guinea: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
January 25, 2006
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This Selected Issues paper examines the sources of real growth in Guinea. It identifies and quantifies the impact on real GDP growth of both the exogenous shocks and the policy changes that have occurred since 2000. The paper offers, first, some empirical evidence on real GDP growth in Guinea and then analyzes the sources of growth using the standard framework of growth accounting. The paper also analyzes and quantifies the effect that some exogenous shocks and policy changes have had on growth.
Subject: Commercial banks, Currency markets, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates
Keywords: CR, Currency markets, equilibrium exchange rate, exchange rate, Exchange rates, GDP absorption, GDP composition, GDP share, ISCR, market, market activity, natural logarithm, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Sub-Saharan Africa, tertiary sector, West Africa
Pages:
95
Volume:
2006
DOI:
Issue:
025
Series:
Country Report No. 2006/025
Stock No:
1GINEA2006001
ISBN:
9781451815276
ISSN:
1934-7685
