1st Edition

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Finn Tarp Copyright 1993
230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This book reveals and examines the relevance of the macroeconomic theory and models behind recommendations for stabilization and structual adjustment. Alternaive analytical approaches are discusses. This is done on the basis of an up-to-date review of developments in sub-saharan Africa during the 1980's and within a common analytical framework.

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Macroeconomics of Africa 2. Macroeconomic Consistency and Adjustment Policies 3. Financial Programming and Stabilization 4. Growth Programming and Adjustment 5. Growth Oriented Adjustment - An IMF/World Bank Synthesis? 6. Alternative Approaches 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index

Biography

Finn Tarp

`Writing competently and lucidly, Tarp avoids dogmatism and polemics'