Africa    

Commodities and Africa       

"The Curse: Why Natural Resources Are Not Always a Good Thing,” Milken Institute Review, vol.13, no.4, 4^th quarter 2011: 28-39.

“How Can Commodity Exporters Make Fiscal and Monetary Policy Less Procyclical?” Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources, R.Arezki, T.Gylfason & A.Sy, eds. (IMF, 2011). Keynote,  High Level Seminar,  IMF Institute & Central Bank of  Algeria, Algiers, Nov.2010.

"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        

"The Little Economy That Could," Foreign Policy, Feb.2, 2012.

"Mauritius: African Success Story,"  forthcoming in a volume edited by S.Edwards, S.Johnson, & D.Weil, expected 2012.  NBER WP 16569, Dec.2010.  Featured in NBER Digest, Spring 2011.  Slides, NBER's African Successes Project conference , Accra , Ghana, July 18-20, 2010.  HKS RWP10-036, Sept. 2010.  Finding Big Lessons in Small Places MPA/ID 10th Anniversary, May 2010.   [A l'Isle Maurice, Jan. 14, 2009.]

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 African Development Successes, NBER, Pre-conference, Feb.2009.

["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, Oct.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, Oct.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.