Between Liberalisation and Oppression: The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Africa (Codesria Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2869780532 ISBN 13: 9782869780538

Publisher: CODESRIA, 1995

Synopsis

No one can fail to be aware of the incredible impact that the IMF and the World Bank have had on Africa. Their structural adjustment programmes were deliberately designed to shock African economies into free market reform and ensuing stability. But when `getting the prices right' first swamped the World Bank's African economic plans in the early 1980s, few bothered to analyse the politics of a reform package whose immediate impact was violent and unsettling. While Africa has come a long way since then, the goal of market reform must be as important as the task of understanding the politics of unleashing the forces of the market. Not least, is the question of democratisation, which the Bank itself now attempts to force through with loan conditions. This book is the culmination of intense debate by African authors across the continent. Three sections make up a comprehensive analysis of adjustment regimes, their perspectives and the political context in which they have survived, or not. Country case studies in both anglophone and francophone Africa round up the analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: CODESRIA
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2869780532
• ISBN 13: 9782869780538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Mkandawire Thandika, Olukoshi Adebayo O.