This study evaluates the economic impact of the proposed COMESA-SADC-EAC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) on 26 African countries. It uses the global trade analysis project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and database to measure the static effects of the establishment of the...

International aid has an ambiguous effect on the macro-economy of the recipient country. To the extent that aid raises consumer expenditure, there will be some real exchange rate appreciation and a shift of resources away from traded goods production and into non-traded goods production....

Several governments in sub-Saharan Africa have embarked on various market reforms to improve commodity market performance. However, the success of such market reforms depends partly on the strength of the transmission of price signals between spatially separated markets and between different...

Investigates how macroeconomic shocks and policies for agricultural performance have affected living standards, especially in agriculture.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Economic theory working paper on monetary policy to deal with double purchasing power economic disparity between countries with weak local currency and those with strong currencies - argues that price structures are related to fundamental economic conditions as determined by...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the banking system, monetary policy, credit, illiquidity and inflation in Yugoslavia - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables.