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  What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environments are promising for reform and which are not.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000

  Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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  Structural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article outlines the various forces shaping change at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recommends various changes within the IMF.The first force springs from pressure in increasing the IMF's surveillance function, giving it new responsibilities to monitor and advise governments on financial sector restructuring and enabling it to operate as a quasi-lender of last resort.The sec
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  What good can debt relief and PRSP do?: the case of Zambia

  Bread for the World, 2001

  This web resource looks into the Zambia's position of debt and the influence PRSPs and associated debt relief is having on Zambia.
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  The rebirth, or second coming of adjustment lending

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2001

  The article discusses the renaming, repackaging and expanding of adjustment lending. The article emphasises that it is not only the volume of adjustment lending that is expanding but also the scope of lending.The article:explores the differences between the approaches of old style adjustment and new style adjustment (i.e.
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  Agricultural change under structural adjustment and other shocks in Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997

  The agricultural sectors of many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa have been profoundly affected by policy changes comprising part of the wider process of structural adjustment. Government controls on exchange rates, interest rates, farm inputs and crop output prices have been liberalized.
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  Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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  Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.
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  The Political Feasibility of Adjustment

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  The political dimension of adjustment was a problem to which relatively little attention was paid until the beginning of the 1990s. Analysts had, of course, been building and testing politico-economic models for over 20 years, but these concerned the developed countries, where the political context is very different.

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