Accounting for less than optimal performance of structural adjustment programmes in sub-saharan African countries

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Gerry Nkombo Muuka
Keyword(s):  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Optimal Performance ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programmes

Guinea's Economic Performance Under Structural Adjustment: Importance of Mining and Agriculture

1995 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Campbell ◽  
Jennifer Clapp
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programmes

Domestic policy inadequacies have been targeted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the main reason for poor economic performance in sub-Saharan Africa generally.1 The structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by these international financial institutions (IFIs) over the past decade have sought to rectify such policies. But many countries following their advice have continued to experience economic decline, albeit according to the World Bank, as a result primarily of their failure to properly implement the recommended reforms. It was argued in the late 1980s and early 1990S that governments pursuing strong adjustment programmes, even in the face of inhospitable world economic conditions, still outperformed weak reformers.2 This analysis does not hold with the same weight for all African countries. In the case of Guinea, external factors have been equally important in explaining its economic record under adjustment.

From Chronic Emergency to Development: An Analysis of the Health of the Urban Poor in Luanda, Angola

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najmi Kanji ◽  
Trudy Harpham
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Infant Mortality Rate ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Intestinal Infections ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Sub Saharan

There is a dearth of published literature on health care systems in Angola. Like many sub-Saharan African countries, Angola is experiencing rapid urbanization. The authors provide an analysis of the health status, environmental health conditions, and health-related behavior of the urban poor in Luanda, Angola. Although data are patchy and rarely disaggregated to reveal severe conditions in the shanty towns, a grave picture emerges. An average infant mortality rate of 104/1,000, with malaria and intestinal infections the main causes of death in children under 1 year old, reflects the poor environmental conditions, which are worsening as urbanization continues at a rapid rate. Use of health services is limited; for example, 50 percent of women give birth at home, mainly unassisted, and only 28 percent of children are covered by measles immunization (as validated by card). A discussion of existing health strategies, programs, and their constraints is set in the context of the future possibilities of the ending of the 15-year war and the introduction of structural adjustment policies.

African business systems in a globalising world

1999 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poul Ove Pedersen ◽  
Dorothy McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programmes ◽  
Globalising World

The failure of structural adjustment programmes to promote industrialisation in Africa may be at least partly explained by the fragmentation of African business systems. In Africa, the parastatal, foreign-dominated formal and indigenous informal sectors are poorly integrated, largely as a result of the institutional environment in which they have developed. The lack of supportive financial, state and social institutions inhibits trust and accountability, and impedes the access to capital, labour market flexibility, and sub-contracting, which are needed for modern industrial development. More research is needed, both detailed studies of business systems in individual African countries, and cross-country comparisons of the linkages between the economy and the wider social and institutional environment.

Determinants of export-oriented industrial output in Ghana: the case of formal wood processing in an era of economic recovery

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Henry Owusu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Industrial Output ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Adjustment Programme ◽  
Wood Processing ◽  
Sub Saharan

Like many other Sub-Saharan African countries, Ghana implemented an orthodox Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), to resuscitate its ailing economy, in the early 1980s. Subsequently, there has been a dramatic expansion in the production and export of processed wood. Based on an empirical study of Ghana's formal wood processing industry, this paper discusses the various determinants that have combined to boost the export-oriented output in the industry, particularly in the first decade of the programme, and assesses the extent to which the SAP-based policy actions account for the change. The study concludes that adjustment played a major role in the change, and suggests that even though SAP supporters and critics disagree on the nature, dynamics and effects of the programme, government measures under the programme are an indicator of what real commitment on the part of African governments can do to engender production expansion in comparable African manufacturing industries.

Fixed Exchange Rates and Structural Adjustment Programmes: Côte d'lvoire

1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil B. Ridler
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rates ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Director General ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programmes ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The implementation of economic reforms in Africa under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) has undoubtedly produced the kind of social dislocation so well described by Barry Riddell in a recent article in this Journal. The structural adjustment programmes (S.A.P.s) have also in some cases generated growth, as noted by Michel Camdessus, director-general of the I.M.F. in 1991: ‘Soon more than 30 African countries will apply these growth strategies. Where the programmes have been applied rigorously, results have been impressive. ’

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