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Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies / ed. by David E. Sahn.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Food Systems and Agrarian ChangePublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) : 29 drawings, 115 tablesContent type:
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  • 9781501737749
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Map -- Economic Crisis and Policy Reform in Africa: An Introduction -- 2 Ghana: Adjustment’s Star Pupil? -- 3 Policy Failure and the Limits of Rapid Reform: Lessons from Guinea -- 4 Missed Opportunity for Adjustment in a Rent-Seeking Society: The Case of Zaire -- 5 Oil Boom and Bust: The Harsh Realities of Adjustment in Cameroon -- 6 Economic Fallout from a Uranium Boom: Structural Adjustment in Niger -- 7 Adjustment without Structural Change: The Case of Malawi -- 8 Structural Adjustment in a Country at War: The Case of Mozambique -- 9 From Forced Modernization to Perestroika: Crisis and Adjustment in Tanzania -- 10 Structural Adjustment in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Gambia -- 11 Staggered Reforms and Limited Success: Structural Adjustment in Madagascar -- 12 Economic Crisis and Policy Reform in Africa: Lessons Learned and Implications for Policy -- References -- Index
Summary: In this timely volume sixteen specialists examine the external and domestic factors that precipitated Africa's economic crisis and the nature and consequences of the process of reform designed to restore macroeconomic stability and accelerate the rate of economic growth. The authors explore the efforts of ten diverse countries in sub-Saharan Africa to rectify economic distortions of the past and weaknesses in institutional structures. Their case studies include Ghana, Guinea, Zaire, Cameroon, Niger, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Gambia, and Madagascar.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Map -- Economic Crisis and Policy Reform in Africa: An Introduction -- 2 Ghana: Adjustment’s Star Pupil? -- 3 Policy Failure and the Limits of Rapid Reform: Lessons from Guinea -- 4 Missed Opportunity for Adjustment in a Rent-Seeking Society: The Case of Zaire -- 5 Oil Boom and Bust: The Harsh Realities of Adjustment in Cameroon -- 6 Economic Fallout from a Uranium Boom: Structural Adjustment in Niger -- 7 Adjustment without Structural Change: The Case of Malawi -- 8 Structural Adjustment in a Country at War: The Case of Mozambique -- 9 From Forced Modernization to Perestroika: Crisis and Adjustment in Tanzania -- 10 Structural Adjustment in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Gambia -- 11 Staggered Reforms and Limited Success: Structural Adjustment in Madagascar -- 12 Economic Crisis and Policy Reform in Africa: Lessons Learned and Implications for Policy -- References -- Index

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In this timely volume sixteen specialists examine the external and domestic factors that precipitated Africa's economic crisis and the nature and consequences of the process of reform designed to restore macroeconomic stability and accelerate the rate of economic growth. The authors explore the efforts of ten diverse countries in sub-Saharan Africa to rectify economic distortions of the past and weaknesses in institutional structures. Their case studies include Ghana, Guinea, Zaire, Cameroon, Niger, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Gambia, and Madagascar.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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