What did structural adjustment adjust?The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans

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...

IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty

Adjustment and Growth: Macroeconomic Performance of the IMF and World Bank Integrated model for Selected Mediterranean and MENA Developing Countries

accentuate on the programs advocated by the IMF and the World Bank from the model known as the "Integrated Model IMF-World Bank". This research makes a comprehensive evaluation of the applicability of this model to analyze the performance of adjustment programs in the case of six countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, namely, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Morocco...

Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Women

o It is found that the SAP design and framework does not adequately address gender issues, which is again due to the focus of SAP on efficiency, growth and stabilization, without considering structural constraints, and without considering inequality, including that between men and women. Gender concerns were incorporated much later along with issues such as institutions, governance and the envi...

Reform of the IMF and World Bank