Bureaucratic quality in developing countries is endangered by the structural adjustment programs imposed by the international financial institutions, a paper by Bocconi University's Alexander ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the 1980s conditional lending for structural adjustment in developing countries moved the IMF beyond its role of macroeconomic crisis ...

This paper seeks to analyse the causes, manifestations, and trajectory of the economic crisis that has engulfed Africa since the early 1970s. It argues, contrary to orthodox analyses of conventional ...

MANY AFRICANS still harbour a grudge against the IMF that dates back to the 1990s, when it became known for the bitter medicine it administered. Before any bail-outs, the fund would insist that ...

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