Africa: Lawyers in Neoliberalism [analysis] Oct 18, 2009
Structural Adjustment Programmes of the 1980s destroyed the little achievements in education, health, life-expectancy, and literacy that we had made during the nationalist period. Neo-liberal policies of the last ten years have destroyed the small industrial sector - textiles, oil, leather, steel, farm implements, cashew nut factories - which had been built during the period of import-substitution. (allAfrica.com)
Urban Sprawl: A New Epidemic In Accra. Oct 13, 2009
The 1980s witnessed structural adjustment programmes and a new right wing ideology about competition and choice in Ghana. This included the role of the free market. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
GTUC submits proposals on 2010 Budget to Government Oct 3, 2009
We all witnessed the negative effects of IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programmes that finally turned Ghana into a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). No country has achieved economic and social development with the IMF/World Bank prescriptions. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Africa: Continent And the Global Crisis - Time to Throw Away Neo-Liberalism [editorial] Aug 22, 2009
The excessive liberalisation of trade and investment, driven by neo-liberal dogma, and carried out under structural adjustment programmes, the WTO regime, and further envisaged under the prescriptions of Free Trade Agreements such as the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been largely responsible for the on-going inter-related global food, energy, financial and economic crises. At the same time, new measures proposed under the Doha Round of WTO negotiations, as well as the proposed... (allAfrica.com)
Ghana trapped in World Bank/IMF Vicious Cycle Jul 21, 2009
For the Crop Extension Services and Veterinery Services, although their training schools in Kwadaso, Nyankpala, Ohawu, and Pong-Tamale have been churning out well-trained personnel over the years, due to World Bank conditions that were introduced as a result of the Economic Recovery Programme and The Structural Adjustment Programmes, employments of these personnel have remained frozen till date, leaving the departments with the only other option of replacing retiring and diseased staffs. The... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
UK befriends developing nations ahead of talks Jul 15, 2009
The Bretton Woods institutions were regarded with suspicion by the South for implementing a version of market fundamentalism via much-maligned structural adjustment programmes, forcing nations who sought loans into an economic mindset that often required deep cuts in social spending, hurting the poor most. Ruddock said the disbursement of funds for climate change simply could not be analogous to that. (Business Report, South Africa)
Africa: Should Aid Come to an End? [book review] May 22, 2009
For many Africans, particularly women, children and those working in the informal sector, the social impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) has been excruciatingly felt. Designed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), they have been the frame-work for economic and social policy in Africa since the early 1980s. (allAfrica.com)
Africa: Analysts Attack Regional Trade Deals Apr 12, 2009
We have experience of the structural adjustment programmes instituted since the 1980s and we know the havoc that they caused in our countries. "They caused an upsurge in the dumping of European products, leading to the closure of many industries and resulting in job losses and crime and other anti-social vices.". (allAfrica.com)
Zimbabwe: 10 Years of Economic Sanctions, That's Enough! Mar 18, 2009
Let's add to these sanctions the usual and disastrous consequences of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank - namely liberalisation, privatisations, low wages, and worsening living conditions - as well as the more frequent cycle of droughts to understand the deep underlying causes of Zimbabwe's sorry plight. Other African countries escape this fate only because they live with cash injections from external funding, funding of... (allAfrica.com)
Don't follow us, we're lost too Mar 11, 2009
These policies, the root cause of the current crisis across developed nations, have sometimes been forced on LDCs through structural adjustment programmes. The crisis has forced governments in developed countries to once again take a leading role in finance, albeit reluctantly in some cases, by taking over major banks. (EurekAlert!)
