Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs

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These briefs report on ongoing operational, economic, and sector work carried out by the World Bank and its member governments in the Africa Region.

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    Monitoring Structural Adjustment at the Microeconomic Level
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 1998-04) Biggs, Tyler; Srivastava, Pradeep
    This paper describes a methodology for collecting information to monitor reform programs at the microeconomic level. Since narrowing the focus makes the explanation of this methodology more tractable the paper restricts its attention to the industrial sector. A more comprehensive monitoring of adjustment would include other economic sectors, as well as social indicators, such as poverty alleviation. A rather standard reform package is also assumed, one that has been implemented in several African countries. Additionally, since adjustments to changes in incentives take time and may proceed at different rates at different points of time, the monitoring exercise is designed to collect data over a sufficiently long period of time to capture the continuing process of adjustment. The details of what might be done in the first three years of such an exercise are examined here.
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    Africa Can Compete
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 1994-08) Biggs, Tyler; Moody, Gail R.; Van Leeuwen, Jan-Hendrik; White, E. Diane
    The study explores an important emerging opportunity for African exporters in a particular U.S. market niche - Afrocentric textiles and home products. The size and specific demand requirements of this emerging market are assessed by way of case studies of several large U.S. retail firms which are trying to source these African products. For various reasons, African firms are having problems meeting the demands of these firms, and the study investigates the specific supply constraints through detailed interviews with African producers. During the study, a growing opportunity for standardized garments production for mainstream U.S. consumers was also uncovered. The final section of the study assesses the competitiveness of African producers in this market and assesses Africa's future potential in this global export market.