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The story of a stabilization effort: Turkey (2000-2002)
Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2003This paper provides an overview of the Turkish economy during the implementation of stabilisation programmes during 2000-2002, particularly focusing on the issue of debt sustainability. The paper also lists reforms undertaken and issues that require further action in both general terms and in the monetary and fiscal area.DocumentThe missing links: Uganda’s economic reforms and pro-poor growth
Eldis Document Store, 2004This report analyses the direct and the indirect channels of achieving pro-poor growth for the case of Uganda where high economic growth rates and remarkable poverty reduction have coincided since the late 1980s.DocumentTreacherous conditions: how IMF and World Bank policies tied to debt relief are undermining development
World Development Movement, 2003This report analyses recent initiatives for debt relief led by the World Bank and the IMF, such as the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, and the conditionalities associated to them.DocumentThe IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine
Oxfam, 1999Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.DocumentMacroeconomic adjustment and the poor: analytical issues and cross-country evidence
World Bank, 2002This paper studies the links between macroeconomic adjustment and poverty.DocumentEconomic reform for structural adjustment in Ghana - reality or mirage?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Ghana has been widely cited as a notable front runner in adopting structural adjustment reforms to boost national solvency. Structural adjustment involved curbing public spending by means such as deregulating and privatising formerly State- run services. The programme, started in the 1980s, initially appeared to have a positive impact.DocumentAfter adjustment. How economic change impacted on food security in rural Nicaragua
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Structural adjustment in Nicaragua began in 1988 in the wake of a major economic crisis. The package of adjustment measures included restrictions on government credits for farmers and removal of controls on food prices and crop tariffs. Growing signs of poverty and food insecurity have since emerged in rural communities.DocumentGhana's governance sea-change: can structural adjustment programmes advance civil service reforms?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How do structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) impact on civil service reforms? The study reported here examined this question in the case of Ghana , one of Africa's pioneer adjusters and often cited as a test case for adjustment programmes supported by the WorldBank/IMF in Africa.DocumentStructural adjustment - pro or anti-poor?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Zimbabwe is one of the ideological battlegrounds for proponents and opponents of structural adjustment. But what has been the impact of adjustment on rural life? In the 1990s did conditions improve or worsen for critical parts of the Zimbabwean economy - the informal sector and Communal Area households?DocumentThe politics of implementing the structural adjustment program in Nigeria: state repression, coercion & co-optation versus social forces' contestation, 1986-1993
African Studies Association, 1994This article explores the dynamics of the decision by the Federal Military government of Nigeria to adopt and implement an orthodox policy of economic reform - the Structural Adjustment Program, (SAP) on the advice of the IMF and World Bank, and against the wishes of the majority of Nigerian people.Pages