Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2750
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1102
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
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.
Subjects: 
Agricultural Pricing Policies
Exchange Rate Misalignment
Sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
Q18
F31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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