Bureaucratic quality in developing countries is endangered by the structural adjustment programs imposed by the international financial institutions, a paper by Bocconi's Alexander Kentikelenis ...

This paper analyses the causes of success or failure of adjustment programmes, using a new database on 220 reform programmes. We find that the success or failure of reform depends on domestic ...

African countries must work collectively to seize opportunities in new digital and green economies where the continent’s ...

This Bank was established following the introduction of a Structural Adjustment Programme in 1986 and the abolition of Commodity Boards which were the sole organs for marketing non - oil export ...

Instead, Nigeria will implement a Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). Instructively, SAP was inspired by the “conditionalities” that were tied to the rejected loan from the IMF.

A new paper from the Political Economy Research Institute discusses how the IMF’s programs undermine the ability of governments in developing countries to properly govern Story Transcript ...

This is the case mainly because it results in the erosion of the economy’s tax base. . 3. Puerto Rico needs a comprehensive IMF-style structural adjustment program ...

South Africa will not consider International Monetary Fund funding accompanied by a structural adjustment programme as it battles to contain the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic ...

Myths of structural adjustment It is now mandatory to offer a critique of the structural adjustment programme, SAP. Such a critique, I believe, is not incompatible with the highest of patriotic ...

About half of the improvement in ESAF program countries' growth performance could be attributed to strengthened macroeconomic and structural policies.

We present audio from the six-part series, Capitalism by Ilan Ziv. Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and ...