Inward and outward spillovers in the SACU area /
"Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Southern 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 sy...
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| Main Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
International Monetary Fund,
©2013.
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| Series: | IMF working paper ;
WP/13/31. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Southern 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"--Abstract. |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Feb. 5, 2013). "African Department"--Page 2 of pdf. "January 2013"--Page 2 of pdf. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook Business Collection |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 23). |
| ISBN: | 9781475515541 1475515545 9781475522419 147552241X 9781475559156 1475559151 |
