Adding Up Problem
Adding Up Problem

Author: Takamasa Akiyama

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 48

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Policies designed to address the regional adding- up problem in Sub-Saharan Africa -- such as a region- optimal export tax -- generate unequal benefits among countries. Further, few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have sufficient market power to influence commodity prices in the long run. Export taxes may prove beneficial for some countries but, at certain levels, transfer resources from smallholders to government with limited welfare gains.

Kenya
Kenya

Author: Gurushri Swamy

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 80

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Structural adjustment loans in Kenya have supported trade liberalization, exchange rate depreciation, and, to some extent, export development. But World Bank funds may have helped Kenya postpone critical reform of the civil service and social sectors and divestiture of parastatals.

Eastern Europe's Experience with Banking Reform
Eastern Europe's Experience with Banking Reform

Author: Alfredo E. Thorne

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 48

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The effectiveness of banks in the transition depends on how soon authorities begin to restructure the banking system and how that restructuring fits into the sequence with enterprise restructuring and privatization.