Developing a sustainable economy in Cameroon / edited by Aloysius Ajab Amin.

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Introduction. 1. Introduction: conceptual issues and overview --- II. Production issues. 2. Agricultural Export Supply Determinants in Cameroon's economy -- 3. Analysis of Cameroons Nontraditional exports market access potential -- 4. Cotton Supply Response in Cameroon -- 5. Cameroons Economy and Reforms -- 6. Sources of economic growth in Cameroon's economy -- 7. The Effects of Trade Reform on Cameroon's economy -- 8. The effects of Trade reform on Cameroon's manufactuctoring industries --- III. Social issues. 86. Cameroons Poverty Profile in 1996 -- 9. The determinants of poverty in Cameroon -- 10. An Analysis of Household Attitudes towards the purchase of livestock products and fish in Cameroon -- 11. Economic Analysis of Private Returns to investment in education in Cameroon -- 12. Internal efficiency of secondary school in Cameroon: institutioanl concern -- 13. Public provision of health care in Cameroon: policy choices and options --- IV. Financial and fiscal issues. 14. Financial Sector Reforms in Cameroon -- 15. Determinants of the level of taxation in Cameroon -- 16. Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Cameroon, 1970-1996 -- 17. Public debt and public investment in Cameroon -- 18. Fiscal policy coordination and economic performance: Cameroon case analysis with a CGE model -- 19. The informal economy and Tax Revenue of Cameroon's economy -- 20. Conclusion: implication for economic development.

Developing a Sustainable Economy in Cameroon is an ambitious effort as the authors try to set a blue print for Cameroon's economy. In the 1980s facing economic crisis, and as dictated by the structural adjustment programme, Cameroon sharply cut public investment expenditures before later cutting government consumption which were followed by privatisation, liquidation of public companies and reduction in the size of the public sector. All these measures are believed to have had devastating effects on the economy. Given the performance of the economy so far the authors suggest that much more effort, with a strong commitment of the main stakeholders, is required to guarantee sustainable economic development in Cameroon. Truly, very few countries in Africa possess such enormous human and natural resources as Cameroon does. This volume brings out the challenges Cameroon faces in its quest for development as well as for designing appropriate strategies for addressing those development challenges.

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