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10 World Bank– and IMF-Supported Programs: A Burkino Faso Perspective »
Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
In the latter half of the 1970s and the early 1980s, most African countries, like other developing countries, were hit hard by the negative effects of trends in the international economic environment—particu...
4 Strengthening Revenue Mobilization Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa »
Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
It is well recognized that an adequate noninflationary revenue mobilization effort is critical for the financing of a government’s necessary social and economic expenditure obligations. Unfortunately, in sub...
7 What Next for African Parastatal Enterprises? »
Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
In contrast to the rest of the world, where the economic and financial weight of parastatal corporations is declining, parastatals in Africa still account for a large amount of economic activity (as measured...
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Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
Peter Warutere For the first time in a decade, the real income of individuals in sub-Saharan Africa is growing, mainly as a result of strong GDP growth, which was estimated at 3.5–4...
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Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
As africa looks for ways to deepen and accelerate the economic reform process, the lessons of the East Asian miracle, of course, come to mind. That is why on May 13–14, 1996, African and Asian officials and...
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Source: Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
Basant Kapur I think both of the papers on financial sector reform are very thought-provoking, but I propose to confine my comments to the paper by David Cole and Betty Slade since m...