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Titre Pénurie de devises et crise de l'agriculture commerciale en Afrique subsaharienne
Auteur Christian Morrisson, Jean-Claude Berthélemy
Mir@bel Revue Economie et prévision
Numéro no 97, 1991/1 L'économie du développement
Rubrique / Thématique
L'analyse des marchés en déséquilibre
Page 117-126
Résumé anglais The Foreign Exchange Shortage and Commercial Agriculture Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Christian Morrisson. This article provides a simple macroeconomic analysis offering an explanation for the self-maintained foreign exchange shortage in African countries whose mainstay is agriculture. The initial rationing of foreign exchange, which is often induced by errors in economic policy, causes a shortage of manufactured goods in rural areas. Under these circumstances, farmers no longer have any impetus to produce marketable goods, the result of which is a drop in foreign exchange receipts and an even more serious crisis in the balance of payments. A numerical illustration is provided in the article for a sample of about ten African countries.
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