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Title Africa and the International Monetary Fund : papers presented at a symposium held in Nairobi, Kenya, May 13-15, 1985 / edited by Gerald K. Helleiner
Published [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, 1986
©1986

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages)
Contents View from the fund / Richard D Erb (11 p.). -- View from Africa : 1 / G Saitoti (6 p.). -- View from Africa : 2 / C.M Nyirabu (13 p.). -- Economic crisis in Africa / Philip Ndegwa (7 p.). -- African economic disequilibria and the international monetary system / J.O Sanusi (16 p.). -- Design, implementation and adequacy of fund programs in Africa / Alassane Ouattara (25 p.). -- Fund conditionality and the socioeconomic situation in Africa / Samba Mawakani (9 p.). -- Alternative approaches to stabilization in Africa / John Loxley (31 p.). -- External debt management in the African context / Eduard H Brau (21 p.). -- World Bank in adjustment and economic growth in Africa / Luis de Azcarate (26 p.)
Summary The world is faced with a crisis in Africa. The word "crisis" is undoubtedly overused in today's complex and unstable world, but the current situation in Africa richely deserves its use. On top of fundamental problems of longer-run development - rapid population growth, slow economic growth, and susceptibility of drought and desertification - that had already attracted wide-spread concern, recent years have seen savage blows from a malfunctioning world economy dealt on Africa. The collapse in African countries' international terms of trade consequent to oil price increases and severe global recession has done the greatest damage, but high international interest rates and protectionism have also hurt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject International Monetary Fund -- Africa
SUBJECT International Monetary Fund fast
Internationaler Währungsfonds gnd
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Kongress
IMF.
Africa
Afrika
Form Electronic book
Author Helleiner, Gerald K., editor.
International Monetary Fund, issuing body.
ISBN 9781455268856
1455268852
1280878304
9781280878305
1455296341
9781455296347
1455292141
9781455292141
9786613719614
6613719617