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.