Trade and fiscal adjustment in Africa

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Trade and fiscal adjustment in Africa

edited by David Bevan ... [et al.]

Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 2000

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  • : us : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: us : cloth ISBN 9780312214647

Description

This volume contains an authoritative examination by leading scholars in the field of the key themes in Africa's recent fiscal reforms and trade liberalization and the continent's prospects for improving trade and development. Differing reform strategies are reformed and assessed with a range of case-studies of fiscal reform in Kenya, the Cote d'Ivoire and Tanzania. The impact of the trade liberalization and the linking of aid and trade by donor countries are assessed.
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: uk ISBN 9780333585856

Description

An authoritative examination of the key themes in Africa's recent fiscal reforms and trade liberalization and her prospects for improving trade and development, by the leading scholars in the field. Differing reform strategies are assessed with a range of case studies of fiscal reform in Kenya, the Cote d'Ivoire and Tanzania. The impact of trade liberalization, and the linking of aid and trade by donor countries, is also investigated.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction
  • D.Bevan, P.Collier, N.Gemmell & D.Greenaway PART ONE: TRADE REFORM ISSUES Timing and Sequencing Issues for Trade Liberalization in Africa
  • R.Falvey & C.D.Kim African Trade Liberalizations: Alternative Strategies for Sustainable Reform
  • P.Collier & J.W.Gunning Donor Trade Benefits from Aid: Evidence from the EC and Sub-Saharan Africa
  • O.Morrissey The Credibility Problem and the Speed of Trade Liberalisation: Modelling the Costs of Speculative Behaviour with an Application to Kenya
  • R.Reinikka PART TWO: FISCAL REFORM ISSUES The Design of Fiscal Reforms in Revenue-Constrained Developing Countries
  • C.Bliss Tax Revenue Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes and Consequences
  • M.Bleaney, N.Gemmell & D.Greenaway Analysing the Incidence of Taxes in the Cote d'Ivoire
  • N.C.Chia, S.Wahba & J.Whalley Tax Reform in Tanzania
  • N.E.Osoro PART THREE: INTERFACES Fiscal Implications of Trade Liberalization
  • D.Bevan The Fiscal Impact of Trade Reforms in Tanzania in the 1980s
  • W.Lyakurwa Portfolio Responses to Trade Policy Incredibility
  • P.Collier & J.W.Gunning Index

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