Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture
Edited by Ian Goldin and L Alan Winters

The proceedings of an April 1991 CEPR joint conference with the OECD Development Centre on `International Dimensions to Structural Adjustment: Implications for Developing Country Agriculture', reported in issue no. 44/45 of this Bulletin, April/June 1991, are now available. The volume was discussed at a London lunchtime meeting on 1 June, addressed by Ian Goldin, and a CEPR joint forum with the IMF Visitors' Center, in Washington DC on 4 June, addressed by Ian Goldin, Dani Rodrik, Vito Tanzi and Sweder van Wijnbergen, all contributors to the volume. It contains the following chapters:

`Introduction: From Macro to Maize', Ian Goldin and L Alan Winters

`Sequencing and Welfare: Labour Markets and Agriculture', Sebastian Edwards

`Agricultural Adjustment and the Mexico-USA Free Trade Agreement', Santiago Levy and Sweder van Wijnbergen

`Do the Benefits of Fixed Exchange Rates Outweigh their Costs? The Franc Zone in Africa', Shantayanan Devarajan and Dani Rodrik

`Adjustment and the Rural Sector: A Counterfactual Analysis of Morocco', François Bourguignon, Christian Morrisson and Akiko Suwa

`Exchange Reforms, Supply Response, and Inflation in Africa', Ajay Chhibber

`Taxes versus Quotas: The Case of Cocoa Exports', Arvind Panagariya and Maurice Schiff

`Trade Reform and the Small Country Assumption', David Evans, Ian Goldin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

`Markets, Stabilisation and Structural Adjustment in Eastern European Agriculture', Ronald W Anderson and Andrew Powell

`Should Marketing Boards Stabilise Prices through Forward Purchases?', Christopher L Gilbert

`Infrastructure, Relative Prices and Agricultural Adjustment', Riccardo Faini

`Structural Factors and Tax Revenue in Developing Countries: A Decade of Evidence', Vito Tanzi

`International Dimensions of the Political Economy of Distortionary Price and Trade Policies', Kym Anderson

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