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Has economic reform hurt the poor in Africa? There is little disagreement that most African countries faced an economic crisis in the 1980s, characterized by worsening budget and balance-of-payment deficits, stagnant growth, and slow improvement in general indicators. Far less consensus exists, however, on the appropriateness and effectiveness of the macroeconomic and sectoral reforms these countries undertook in response to these conditions. More contentious still is the subject of this book: whether the poor are hurt, in absolute and relative terms, by the economic policies designed to restore macroeconomic stability, reinvigorate markets, and rationalize resource allocation in Africa. Critics claim that, while orthodox adjustment policies may make sense at the macro level, they have high social costs. Proponents deny that living standards have declined as a result of adjustment policies, arguing that any declines are due to other factors. . The contributors to this volume employ empirical methods to separate the effects of the economic crises that induced countries to begin to adjust from the impact of the economic reforms themselves. This approach is more sophisticated than the

Author

Sahn, David E.

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198290353

Subjects

Business, Political Science, Agriculture