Cover -- Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Overview -- 1: Introduction: Tracing Poverty Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress...

Set in the context of the recent theoretical and policy debates on appropriate exchange rate regimes for emerging market economies in a world of free capital mobility, the paper attempts to present the case for an intermediate exchange rate regime, drawing on recent theoretical and empirical...

Alfred Maizels' work on commodity trade and prices documented trends in a major area of international economic relations. This title elaborates the ideas in the tradition of Maizels' contributions, and discusses and extends these theories in relation to current problems