Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Africa: barking up the wrong tree?

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This study investigates the relations between trade policies and poverty with the focus on the PRSPs which have become the main tool for poverty reduction in most Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Africa and for that matter SSA has been said to assume the face of poverty and there have been efforts to reduce the menace (Ndulu, 2006). One strategy which has dominated the development agenda for poverty alleviation from the 1980s through to the 1990s is the PRSPs. The paper seeks to find out how PRSPs relate trade and poverty reduction and what has been the outcome of the mix. With regards to the analytical framework which rests on the assumption of trade policies, the study emphasizes that trade policies are relevant in any trade arrangement. This is evident in chapter two which discusses trade theories and its implications for the gains thereafter. The study reiterates that most African countries have implemented a number of trade policies such as liberalization. However, evidence

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