The World Bank's structural adjustment loans: a critique
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What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans
Analysis of adjustment loans often overlooks their repetition to the same country. Repetition changes the nature of the selection problem. None of the top 20 recipients of repeated adjustment lending over 1980–99 were able to achieve reasonable growth and contain all policy distortions. About half of the adjustment loan recipients show severe macroeconomic distortions regardless of cumulative a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intereconomics
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0020-5346,1613-964X
DOI: 10.1007/bf02925114