Africa    
 

Commodities and Africa       

"Should Gold-Exporters Peg Their Currencies to Gold?" Research Study No.29, World Gold Council,  London, 2002. 

"Cocoa in Ghana: The Cocoa Farmers, Cocoa Marketing Board, and Elasticity of Supply," MIT, 1974.


Southern African Macroeconomics        

Comments on: “Determinants and effects of export diversification in Cape Verde and Mozambique: A contribution towards assessing successes in West and Southern African economic communities,” by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Luis Brites Pereira and Manuel Caldeira Cabral,   slides.   For Economic Research on African Development Successes, NBER, Pre-conference, Feb.28, 2009.

"Mauritius: Africa success story," slides on initial thoughts, Feb. 2009, NBER's African Successes Project.

["Dutch Disease Returns to South Africa," Business Day, Oct.5, 2009.]

CID South Africa Growth Initiative, including working papers and news. 
Project on South Africa: Performance and Prospects, ,     Center for International Development, Harvard University.

"Fiscal and Monetary Policy in a Commodity Based Economy" (with B. Smit & F.Sturzenegger),  Economics of Transition  16, Issue 4, pp. 679-713, October 2008 (Blackwell).

"South Africa: Macroeconomic Challenges after a Decade of Success"  (with B.Smit & F.Sturzenegger),  Economics of  Transition 16, Issue 4, pages 639-677, October 2008 (Blackwell).  KSG RWP07-021.   From Project on South Africa: Performance and Prospects, Center for International Development,  Jan. 2008.

"On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate,"   South African Journal of Economics, 75, no.3, September 2007.

Other Frankel papers/presentations on South Africa.