Africa and the International Monetary Fund
Subtitle: papers presented at a symposium held in Nairobi, Kenya, May 13-15, 1985
By: edited by Gerald K. Helleiner.
Contributors: Helleiner, Gerald K.; International Monetary Fund.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: International Monetary Fund -- Africa.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.