Trade and Fiscal Adjustment in Africa

MICHAEL BLEANEY Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), University of Nottingham CHRISTOPHER BLISS Nuffield College, Oxford NGEE CHOON CHIA Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Singapore RODNEY FALVEY Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Australian National University JAN WILLEM GUNNING Free University, Amsterdam CHA DONG KIM Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea WILLIAM LYAKURWA African Economics Research Consortium, Nairobi OLIVER MORRISSEY CREDIT, University of Nottingham NEHEMIAH E. OSORO Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam RITVA REINIKKA African Technical Department, The World Bank SADEK WAHBA African Technical Department, The World Bank JOHN WHALLEY Department of Economics, University of Warwick

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. The impact of trade liberalization, and the linking of aid and trade by donor countries, is also investigated.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.