Through Structural Adjustment to Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

As a contribution to the structural adjustment debate, this study sets out a series of important factual, judgemental, normative and contextual issues relevant for understanding and explaining past performance and experience of Structural Adjustment in Africa. It is a product of ten studies from the Institute of Development Studies in which thirteen sub-Saharan countries participated. The contributors review the experience of a number of sub-Saharan African countries in designing and...
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As a contribution to the structural adjustment debate, this study sets out a series of important factual, judgemental, normative and contextual issues relevant for understanding and explaining past performance and experience of Structural Adjustment in Africa. It is a product of ten studies from the Institute of Development Studies in which thirteen sub-Saharan countries participated. The contributors review the experience of a number of sub-Saharan African countries in designing and executing stablization and adjustment programmes during the 1970s and 1980s. The eight parts include the marcro framework; sectoral issues; politics and governance; the World Bank experience; the way forward and country reports.