Trade and Fiscal Adjustment in Africa

by Bevan, David

• ISBN13: 9780312214647
• ISBN10: 0312214642
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-05-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume contains an authoritative examination by leading scholars in the field of the key themes in Africa's recent fiscal reforms and trade liberalization and the continent's prospects for improving trade and development. Differing reform strategies are reformed and assessed with a range of case-studies of fiscal reform in Kenya, the Cocirc;te d'Ivoire and Tanzania. The impact of the trade liberalization and the linking of aid and trade by donor countries are assessed.

Author Biography

David Bevan is a Fellow of St. Johns College in Oxford.

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Director the Center for the Study of African Economies.

Norman Gemmell is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Nottingham.

David Greenaway is Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	x
Notes on the Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
David Bevan
Paul Collier
Norman Gemmell
David Greenaway
Part I Trade Reform Issues
Timing and Sequencing Issues for Trade Liberalization in Africa	13	(23)
Rod Falvey
Cha Dong Kim
African Trade Liberalizations: Alternative Strategies for Sustainable Performance	36	(20)
Paul Collier
Jan Willem Gunning
Donor Trade Benefits from Aid: Evidence from the EC and Sub-Saharan Africa	56	(20)
Oliver Morrissey
The Credibility Problem and the Speed of Trade Liberalization: Modelling the Cost of Speculative Behaviour with an Application to Kenya	76	(39)
Ritva Reinikka
Part II Fiscal Reform Issues
The Design of Fiscal Reforms in Revenue-constrained Developing Countries	115	(16)
Christopher Bliss
Tax Revenue Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes and Consequences	131	(18)
Michael Bleaney
Norman Gemmell
David Greenaway
Analyzing the Incidence of Taxes in the Cote d'Ivoire	149	(27)
Ngee Choon Chia
Sadek Wahba
John Whalley
Tax Reform in Tanzania	176	(27)
Nehemiah E. Osoro
Part III Trade and Fiscal Interfaces
Fiscal Implications of Trade Liberalization	203	(39)
David Bevan
The Fiscal Impact of Trade Reforms in Tanzania in the 1980s	242	(20)
William Lyakurwa
Portfolio Responses to Trade Policy Incredibility	262	(11)
Paul Collier
Jan Willem Gunning
Index	273