IMF Staff Country Reports

Guinea: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

January 25, 2006

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Guinea: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

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

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    95

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2006/025

  • Stock No:

    1GINEA2006001

  • ISBN:

    9781451815276

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685