NEW DELHI: Encouraged by the results of structural adjustment loans to Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, World Bank on Tuesday said it may give such loans to more states subject to their adhering to new ...

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank implemented neoliberal structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) across most countries in Asia, Africa and ...

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Former Chief Economist of the World Bank's Africa division, Shantayanan Devarajan, argues that SAPs may not have worked in the '80s and '90s, but that they have in the past 15 years. On 7 May, 2013, ...

SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, it imposes hundreds, if not thousands, of structural adjustment ...

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The IMF's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF): Is It Working? The 1980s and early 1990s were an exceptionally difficult period for low-income developing countries, particularly in Africa.