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Optimal Real Exchange Rate Determination and its effects on Competitiveness

Project Active from to State and Macroeconomics

Researchers

John Weeks

Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies
Oswald Mungule

Oswald Mungule

President, Economics Association of Zambia

This study is made up of two essays on the “Determinants of the Zambian Kwacha”. The first essay gives a critical analysis of the short term determinants of the Kwacha and draws implications for the exchange rate policy.

The second essay specifically interrogates whether either the copper price or industrial diversification is a key long-run determinant of the Kwacha and also draws implications for the exchange rate policy.

Project outputs

Determinants of the exchange rate and policy implications for Zambia

International Growth Centre
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Determinants of the Zambian Kwacha (Working Paper)

John Weeks, Oswald Mungule
Working paper

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