[Tips] Category: Africa Sort by: visit | title   45 records found in 3 pages. Page: 1 2 3 Bank of Mauritius - Home Page   URL: http://bom.intnet.mu/     2058 visits has been made through our site.   South African Futures Exchange   URL: http://www.safex.co.za/   South African Futures Exchange   1792 visits has been made through our site.   International Monetary Fund Working Paper 99122: Inflation, Money Demand, and Purchasing Power Parity in South Africa   URL: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/1999/wp99122.pdf   This empirical study for South Africa indicates that there exists a stable money demand type of relationship among domestic prices, broad money, real income, and interest rates, as well as a long-run relationship among domestic prices, foreign prices, and the norminal exchange rate. In the short run, shocks to the nominal exchange rate affect domestic prices but have virtually no impact on real output, while shocks to broad money have a temporary impact on real output before becoming inflationary. Both types of shocks seem to trigger a monetary policy response, since the short-term interest rate adjusts quickly.   1722 visits has been made through our site.   Taipei Times--Passage of PNTR bill welcomed by industry and government leaders   URL: http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2000/05/26/story/0000037501   News from Taipei Times, "Passage of PNTR bill welcomed by industry and government leaders".   1117 visits has been made through our site.   Bloomberg Energy: Bloomberg Energy   URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/index.html   Subscription fee is charged, user name and password is required for using its service.   1096 visits has been made through our site.   Norway (Norges Bank)   URL: http://www.norges-bank.no/english/   With Norwegian and English version.   952 visits has been made through our site.   CAMENA: Country Profile   URL: http://www.ifc.org/camena/country.htm   The International Finance Corporation established the Central Asia, MiddleEast, and North Africa Department (CAMENA) in 1990 to support research and investment projects in seventeen Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and North African nations. Socioeconomic data from these efforts are summarized in narrative and numerical form in the CAMENA Country Profiles. These overviews give background social information, key economic ratios, and long-term trends. Annotated links to relevant data from other IFC databases, theUS State Department, and the Central Intelligence Agency point users to more information.   918 visits has been made through our site.   Bank Indonesia (central bank)   URL: http://www.bi.go.id/   With Indonesian and English version.   824 visits has been made through our site.   Johannesburg Stock Exchange, JSE   URL: http://www.jse.co.za/   The JSE was founded to enable the new mines and their financiers to raise funds for the development of the fledgling mining industry. However, the majority of the companies listed today are non-mining organisations. The exchange successfully fulfils its main function - the raising of primary capital - by re-channelling cash resources into productive economic activity thus building the economy while enhancing job opportunities and wealth creation.   810 visits has been made through our site.   Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda [.pdf]   URL: http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/hearn.htm   This 28-page report, authored by Julie Hearn and produced by the Institute of Development Studies, UK, examines how foreign donors, including the United States, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands, as well as the World Bank, have "developed civil society initiatives in Ghana, Uganda, and South Africa." The two sections of the paper discuss the different approaches and the objectives of these foreign donors, and the study concludes that the donor countries are involved in "influencing economic policy and defining the content of democracy."   772 visits has been made through our site.   South African Reserve Bank   URL: http://www.resbank.co.za/     722 visits has been made through our site.   Institute for Developement Policy and Management (IDPM) Information Systems for Public Sector Management Working Paper 8/1999: Information Management, IT and Government Transformation: Innovative Approaches in the new South Africa   URL: http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/ispsm8.pdf   Governments worldwide are faced with the challenge of transformation and the need to modernize administrative practices and management systems. This paper considers problems with existing government processes in South Africa, and presents a generally-applicable framework for analysis of existing government information systems prior to transformation. It argues that a central theme of government transformation is development of a culture of information management to ensure that information systems fit the task for which they are procured.   715 visits has been made through our site.   OECD Technical Paper 150: The Role of Capital Accumulation, Adjustment and Structural Change for Economic Take-off: Empirical Evidence from African Growth Episodes   URL: http://www.oecd.org/dev/PUBLICATION/tp/Tp150.pdf   In this study, it analyses extended periods of growth in Africa based on panel estimations from 27 African countries during the 1960-1996 period. Only a dozen of such rapid growth episodes are observable in Africa since 1960, and several of them eventually came to an end. This paper uses all existing information on macroeconomic performance in Africa in a comparative manner, in order to assess the sustainability of current growth episodes. The main conclusion is that sustainable growth needs to be based on a balanced mix of capital accumulation, macroeconomic adjustment and structural change.   692 visits has been made through our site.   Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Technical Paper 154: Infrastructure Development and Regulatory Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Air Transport   URL: http://www.oecd.org/dev/PUBLICATION/tp/Tp154.pdf   This Technical Paper analyses the main policy issues raised by regulatory reform in air transport in sub–Saharan Africa. Its basic premise is that improving air infrastructure is of paramount importance for the region as it tries to integrate more thoroughly into the world economy. On the basis of the experience of OECD countries with privatisation, liberalisation, and regulatory design, the author analyses progress being made in sub– Saharan Africa and identifies three important case studies: the restructuring of the regional airline of Francophone Western Africa, the sell–off of the state–owned airline of Kenya, and the overall reform process in South Africa, by far the largest market in the sub–continent.   681 visits has been made through our site.   Africa News Online -- SA braced for biggest strike   URL: http://www.africanews.org/south/southafrica/stories/19990824_feat1.html   Hundreds of thousands of South African public workers held a one-day strike, demanding wage increases. The strike left many public offices and schools with minimal staffing and forced others to close. Participating in the largest labor protest in South Africa since the end of apartheid, workers marched in cities across the country including Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. Twelve unions, representing over one million teachers, police and prison workers, hospital personnel, and other public workers, held the strike after seven months of negotiations between the unions and government led to no agreement on pay increases. The unions had demanded a 7.3 percent increase in wages, in line with inflation. Due to difficulties in the economy, however, the government was only able to offer an increase of 6.3 percent. The unions consider the strike successful because the government promised to return to the negotiating table within the next several days. Africa News Organization's short article, "SA braced for biggest strike," briefs readers on the impact that yesterday's strike had on schools in South Africa.   655 visits has been made through our site.   United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)   URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/   The Economic Commission for Africa is the arm of the United Nations devoted to making quality information on African development internationally available. ECA research focus areas include gender equality, agricultural productivity, information technology, social policy, and environmental concerns. The site features an extensive bibliography of articles on African socio- economic development entitled Africa Index as well as the comprehensive Africa Economic Report 1998. Current awareness is also facilitated by the long list of African Newspaper and Magazine links entitled News from Around Africa.   651 visits has been made through our site.   Centre for the Study of African Economies   URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~csaeinfo/   In 1991, the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) was made a Designated Research Centre of the Economic and Social Research Council, and has become one of the largest concentrations of academic economists and social scientists working on Africa outside the continent itself. It is part of the Department of Economics under the Faculty of Social Studies at Oxford University. The centre is located jointly at the Department and St.Antony's College. The Centre produces The Journal of African Economies , published by Oxford University Press (OUP), as well as its own members' Working Paper Series. A research center within the Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) applies macroeconomic and microeconomic methods to African sociological, demographic, and political contexts. Selected abstracts and working papers from 1993 to present are available on topics ranging from central bank policy to health, crop choice, wages, and unemployment (.pdf format). In addition, users may browse the abstracts and tables of contents of articles from the CSAE publication The Journal of African Economies from 1996 to present.   634 visits has been made through our site.   Panafrican News Agency -- Public Sector Workers Go On Strike Over Pay   URL: http://www.africanews.org/PANA/news/19990824/feat4.html   Hundreds of thousands of South African public workers held a one-day strike, demanding wage increases. The strike left many public offices and schools with minimal staffing and forced others to close. Participating in the largest labor protest in South Africa since the end of apartheid, workers marched in cities across the country including Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. Twelve unions, representing over one million teachers, police and prison workers, hospital personnel, and other public workers, held the strike after seven months of negotiations between the unions and government led to no agreement on pay increases. The unions had demanded a 7.3 percent increase in wages, in line with inflation. Due to difficulties in the economy, however, the government was only able to offer an increase of 6.3 percent. The unions consider the strike successful because the government promised to return to the negotiating table within the next several days. Pan African News details the mood and attitudes found at marches across South Africa, as well as interviews the spokesperson of the South African Democratic Teachers Union.   632 visits has been made through our site.   SlaveMovement During the 18th and 19th Centuries   URL: http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html   This site, provided by the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, contains data on slave movements by ship and data on the slave trade. This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century,English slave trade (House of Lords Survey), Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century, internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, slave trade to Havana, Cuba, Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century, and slave trade to Jamaica.   630 visits has been made through our site.   Arab Social Science Research   URL: http://www.assr.org/   The Website of Arab Social Science Research (ASSR) features a virtual library of Web resources devoted to numerous branches of research in Arab Social Science. The library may be searched by country, resource, or topic and provides both annotated and unannotated listings to Websites, government reports, academic research, libraries, online journals, research centers, NGOs, related media, and much more. ASSR also posts here information about upcoming events in the field, including conferences and calls for papers. ASSR is a major program of the Arab Institute for Studies and Communication (AISC), an independent, nonprofit institution currently active in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine founded in 1998 by a group of senior social scientists from the region.   614 visits has been made through our site.   45 records found in 3 pages. Page: 1 2 3 © 2000 The Chinese University of Hong Kong