Sub-Saharan Africa: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

2018 ◽  
pp. 475-498
Author(s):  
L. Adele Jinadu
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

Debt and Structural Adjustment in Africa: Realities and Possibilities

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Callaghy
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

Since the middle of the 1970s Sub-Saharan African states have focused increasingly on their severe economic and fiscal crises. These involve wrestling with the burdens of debt service and the rigors of rescheduling, conducting difficult negotiations with bilateral and private creditors, bargaining over conditionality packages with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank or fending them off, distributing the painful costs of adjustment, coping with import strangulation and devising new development policies and strategies. Already highly dependent on the outside world, the intensity, stakes and levels of conditionality of these relations with external actors have increased substantially.

Things Fall Apart Again: Structural Adjustment Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa

1992 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Barry Riddell
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programmes ◽  
Financial Issues ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

International economics and global politics are unfamiliar territory for many. However, the operations of institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) have profound impacts upon the countries with which they treat, and these extend beyond financial issues and geo-politics. This article indicates how the I.M.F. has imposed ‘conditionalities’ in sub-Saharan Africa as integral elements of Structural Adjustment Programmes (S.A.P.s) that affect not only the lives of all the inhabitants, but also the nature and landscapes of the nations concerned — their very geographical composition.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: The British Approach

1982 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-209
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Howe
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The International Monetary Fund
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