African Economies in Transition: Volume 2: The Reform Experience

by Jo Ann Paulson (Editor)

Overview

An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in those socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention. A companion theoretical volume (0-312-17751-8) examines the changing role of the state during the period of transition. This volume examines the important debate on agricultural reforms in the period, and provides in-depth country studies of the transition economies, covering Congo, Madagascar, Tanzania and the impact of war on transition in Angola and Mozambique. These books are the first in an important new series in association with the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312177522
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/17/1999
Series:	Studies on the African Economies Series
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER B. BARRETT Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, Utah State University MICHAEL R. CARTER Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin MICHAEL GAVIN Senior Economist, Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank STEPHEN JONES Food Studies Group, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford LUIZ A. PEREIRA DA SILVA Senior Economist, African Region, The World Bank ANDRÉS SOLIMANO Director of Argentina and Chile, Inter-American Development Bank ROBERT TIBANA University of Oxford; previously Lecturer, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo DANIEL TOMMASI Economic consultant, Paris

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors PART 1: COUNTRY STUDIES OF THE TRANSITION ECONOMIES The Transition from and the Political Economy of African Socialist Countries at War (Angola and Mozambique); L.A.Pereira da Silva & A.Solimano Bureaucracy, Socialism and Adjustment: Congo and Madagascar; D.Tommasi Savings and Investment in the Tanzanian Economic Reform; M.Gavin Structural Adjustment and the Manufacturing Industry in Mozambique; R.Tibana PART 2: AGRICULTURAL REFORM IN TRANSITION AGRICULTURE Agriculture and Economic Reform in African Socialist Economies; S.Jones Microeconomically Coherent African Agricultural Policy Reform; C.Barrett & M.Carter Index