OECD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Working Paper No. 145 (Formerly Technical Paper No. 145) ECONOMIC POLICY REFORM AND GROWTH PROSPECTS IN EMERGING AFRICAN ECONOMIES by Patrick Guillaumont, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney and Aristomène Varoudakis Research programme on: Poverty Alleviation - Emerging Africa March 1999 CD/DOC(99)2