Article ID: | iaor20071298 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 405 |
End Page Number: | 416 |
Publication Date: | May 1983 |
Journal: | World Development |
Authors: | Dick Hermann, Gupta Sanjeev, Mayer Thomas, Vincent David |
Keywords: | developing countries |
Computable general equilibrium models are used to study the short-run impact of fluctuating primary commodity prices on the economies of Colombia, Ivory Coast and Kenya. The results indicate that these economies are destabilized by primary commodity price fluctuations unless governments act to hold real domestic absorption constant. To achieve this, however, would require foreign exchange reserves in excess of the level normally available to these governments for the purpose of stabilizing domestic economic activity.