"Transferred to digital printing 2007"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding economic reforms in Africa / Joseph Mensah -- Understanding the reform process in Kenya / Maureen Were, Rose Ngugi and Phyllis Makau -- Understanding economic and institutional reforms in Uganda / Julius Kiiza, Godfrey Asiimwe and David Kibikyo -- Understanding economic reforms : the case of Ghana / Joseph Mensah, Roger Oppong-Koranteng and Kwame Frempah-Yeboah -- Understanding reforms : a country case study of Morocco / Brahim Mansouri [and others] -- Political economy of reform in polarised and war-prone societies : the case of Burundi / Floribert Ngaruko and Janvier-D�esir�e Nkurunziza -- Understanding economic and political reforms in Tanzania / Haidari K.R. Amani [and others] -- Understanding economic reforms : the case of Zimbabwe / Takawira Mumvuma, Charles Mujajati and Bernard Mufute -- Bringing it all together / Joseph Mensah.

This book examines the impetuses for, and the features and outcomes of, economic reforms in Africa, using the case studies of seven countries, including Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The case studies in this book address three main issues: (a) Why do countries embark of economic reforms? (b) What are the features of the reforms undertaken in the various African countries? (c) How well did the reforms perform? The book is based on the premise that a proper understanding of economic reforms is served by focusing on how the key variables play out in specific historical, geopolitical and socio-economic contexts. -- Publisher.