Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1102:
The Bias Against Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Has It Survived 20 Years of Structural Adjustment Programs?
Rainer Thiele
Abstract: This paper deals with the question of whether the
discrimination against agriculture that prevailed in Sub-Saharan Africa
until the early 1980s has continued to characterize the region despite the
widespread adoption of structural adjustment programs. The evolution of
both direct interventions in agricultural markets and the indirect effects
resulting from overvalued exchange rates and import substitution policies
is evaluated empirically. It turns out that the taxation of export crops
has become less severe but is still significant in most producing
countries, and that progress in eliminating macroeconomic distortions has
differed enormously between countries, with a slightly positive overall
trend.
Keywords: Agricultural Pricing Policies, Exchange Rate Misalignment, Sub-Saharan Africa; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F31; Q18; (follow links to similar papers)
24 pages, April 2002
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