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Exchange rate flexibility and resilience to external shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa
[Flexibilité des changes et résilience aux chocs externes en Afrique subsaharienne]

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  • Vincent Fleuriet

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The Covid-19 crisis, combining supply and demand shocks with associated inflationary pressures, provides an opportunity to reassess the advantages of fixed exchange rate regimes over flexible or intermediate exchange rate regimes, in particular in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Indeed, in this context, the anchoring of the currency via the fixed exchange rate gives more monetary policy space. La crise de Covid-19, combinant des chocs d’offre et de demande avec des pressions inflationnistes associées, permet de réévaluer les atouts des régimes de change fixe vis-à-vis de ceux en change flexible ou intermédiaire, notamment en Afrique subsaharienne (ASS). En effet, dans ce contexte, l’ancrage externe de la monnaie grâce au taux de change fixe donne plus de marges de manœuvre à la politique monétaire.

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