Jean-Paul Azam

Trade, Exchange Rate, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

A sophisticated yet accessible analysis of economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521684071
• ISBN-10: 0521684072
• Artikelnr.: 22726836

Autorenporträt

Jean-Paul Azam is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse and at the Institut Universitaire de France.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Figures
Tables
1. Introduction and overview
Part I. Unrecorded Trade in Goods and Currencies: 2. The welfare implications of unrecorded cross-border trade
3. Parallel trade and currency convertibility
Part II. Foreign Exchange Constraints: 4. Dollars for sale: inflation and the black market premium
5. The public debt constraint in the CFA zone
6. Currency crises, food, and the cola nut effect
Part III. Longer-term Growth in African Countries: 7. Exchange rate, growth and poverty
8. Export crops, human capital and endogenous growth
9. Ethnic rents and the politics of redistribution
Conclusion
References
Index.