The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...

This paper develops an analytical framework for evaluating the policy of variable levies and assessing its effects on the country's trade, welfare, income distribution, b alance of payments, and fiscal budget. The analysis indicates that th e instability in domestic supply and world prices may...