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A Firm's-Eye View of Policy and Fiscal Reforms in Cameroon

After decades of heavy trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms. Almost simultaneously, a major CFA devaluation cut the international price of Cameroon's currency in half. The authors examine the effe...

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Main Authors: Gauthier, Bernard, Soloaga, Isidro, Tybout, James
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
output
import prices
imports
industrialization
input prices
input use
input-output tables
intermediate goods
intermediate inputs
international prices
international trade
metal products
oil
overvaluation
policy makers
political economy
preferential tariff
price comparisons
producer prices
producers
product differentiation
product markets
production costs
productivity
productivity growth
profit margin
profit margins
protection measures
protection rates
rates of protection
real exchange rate
returns to scale
sales
scale effects
structural adjustment
tariff data
tariff protection
tariff rate
tariff rates
tariff reductions
tax rates
tax reform
tax reforms
tax revenues
total costs
total sales
tradable goods
trade effects
trade liberalization
trade policies
trade reforms
trade restrictions
transaction costs
value of output
wages
world prices
zero tariffs
policy reform
fiscal reforms
devaluation
currency devaluation
incentives
export oriented industries
commercial policy
pricing
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21350

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