Tight money, real interest rates, and inflation in sub-Saharan Africa

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-135

  Buffie, Edward F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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