Introduction Today’s column wraps up my reflections on the fierce controversies over the price deflator, CPI that is applied to calculate the country’s real effective exchange rate, REER. Guyana’s CPI has been widely criticized for being constructed on 1] …

… any serious depth with debt, exchange rate regimes, monetary policy, macroeconomic policy and … exchange rate, REER; and the exchange rate regime in the sections to follow.

… positive role that the free exchange rate regime had in withstanding shocks and …

Governor of the Bank of Albania, Gent Sejko, recently met with an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Anke Weber, IMF Mission Chief for Albania. The IMF’s visit, part of the Article IV consultations, included discussions on Albania’s economic …

… subsidy policy and the multiple exchange rate regimes that were major drains to …

… these neighbouring countries is that exchange rate regimes on their own cannot fully …

Ten percent of the USD 3.4 billion that the IMF demonstrated through the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) instrument would be released by the fund to assist Ethiopia’s economic reform initiative. Recall that when the reform was announced, the IMF disbursed …

… strategy to support the new exchange rate regime of a crawling peg with … effective functioning of the new exchange rate regime of crawling peg with the …

… will improve the country’s foreign exchange rate regime in the coming year. The …

… , we have a managed floating exchange rate regime. We allow the exchange rate …