IMF Staff Country Reports

Angola: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

October 26, 2007

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Angola underlie monetary policy framework. Angola has adopted an anti-inflation policy that has led to a sharp decline in inflation. To institute a monetary policy framework, a nominal anchor or constraint on the value of domestic currency must be established. Additional work to fine-tune the measures of currency in circulation, conduct more sophisticated tests to assess the relationship between inflation and the monetary aggregates, and determine how to incorporate the currency measure in monetary operations is needed.

Subject: Currencies, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Monetary aggregates, Money, Prices, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Anti-inflation policy, Central bank, CR, Currencies, Equilibrium exchange rate equation, Europe, Exchange rate, Exchange rates, Foreign currency, Inflation, ISCR, Monetary aggregate framework, Monetary aggregates, Monetary policy, Money supply, PPP hypothesis, Real exchange rates, Sub-Saharan Africa, Time series

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    82

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2007/355

  • Stock No:

    1AGOEA2007002

  • ISBN:

    9781451800562

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685