The debt crisis and declining living standards require careful husbanding of critically scarce foreign exchange in most African countries. But economic theory suggests that smaller countries, which import from only a few international suppliers and cannot support competitive markets and infrastructure, would be likely to pay more, rather than less for imports. Analysis of import unit values for 1962-87 shows that the twenty African former French colonies...
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1990/1/31
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Do African countries pay more for imports? Yes
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