African countries have not embraced trade liberalization in the manner thatother developing regions have. Protectionist measures have taken various forms,including tariffs, quantitative restrictions, exchange controls and downrightimport bans. A significant number of researchers have attributed,...

The term Privatization is often loosely used to mean a number of related activities, including any expansion of the scope of private sector activity in an economy and the adoption by the public sector of efficiency enhancing techniques commonly employed by the private sector. While acknowledging...

This paper analyzes some of the critical factors that determine project success inthe African Development Bank on the basis of data available on 146 projectscompleted by 1995. The analysis relies heavily on these observed data and doesnot take into account issues of project quality and...