The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund Conditionality Programs in Africa
Author: Magnus Lekara Kpakol
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Published: 1992
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Author: Magnus Lekara Kpakol
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Published: 1992
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kwame Akonor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1135526036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive IMF reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. Yet, questions of Ghana's compliance - to what extent did it comply, how did it manage compliance, what patterns of non-compliance existed, and why? - have not been systematically investigated and remain poorly understood. This book argues that understanding the domestic political environment is crucial in explaining why compliance, or the lack thereof, occurs. Akonor maintains that compliance with IMF conditionality in Ghana has had high political costs and thus, non-compliance occurred once the political survival of a regime was at stake.
Author: Fredoline O. Anunobi
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe accelerated inflation and large payment imbalances that have plagued the world economy in recent years have created new challenges for economic policy. Institutions such as the International Monetary Fund have found themselves operating in a global environment different from that for which they were originally designed, and developing countries have found their aspirations threatened by large increases in their payment deficits. There have been wide disagreements about the most suitable policy responses by developing countries to these problems and about the appropriateness of the stabilization programs favored by the IMF. This book argues that the strong opposition to International Monetary Fund macroeconomics stabilization policies in Africa indicate how difficult and painful it is to put an over-indebted economy on its feet within a short period of time. Contents: Introduction; The Historical Foundation and Theoretical Considerations of the International Monetary Fund: Third World Perspective; The Historical Impact of British Colonial Rule in Nigeria; the Post-Colonial Economy of Nigeria and the National Development Plan; The Origin and Development of the Economic Crisis in Nigeria; the History and Evolution of the IMF, Its Operation and Policy Conditionalities; The IMF, the World Bank and the Sudanese Economy; The International Monetary Fund and the Zambian Debt Problems; African Economic Crisis and the International Monetary Fund Response; The Buhari's Foreign Exchange Regulation: An Alternative to International Monetary Fund Policy Prescriptions; Babangida's Government and the Nature of the International Monetary Fund Involvement in Nigeria; As We See It: Concluding Assessments and Recommendations; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. International Monetary Fund Policy.
Author: Magnus L. Kpakol
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 333
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony Leysens
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 166
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erica R. Gould
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804752794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKanalyzes the changes in conditions placed on International Monetary Fund loans to states over the last fifty years and argues that the changes can be explained by shifts in the sources of the IMF's funding.
Author: James M. Boughton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 019923986X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to provide objective analysis of the role and effectiveness of multilaterals in general and the IMF and World Bank in particular. The IMF is a multilateral financial institution with a mandate to promote financial and macroeconomic stability, cooperative economic policies, and a balanced growth of international trade. More than two fifths of its 185 members are low-income countries and many others have substantial pockets of poverty in their populations. Since economic development and the reduction of poverty are the most important economic challenges that these countries face, how can the IMF best help them? How can the imperative of macroeconomic and financial stability be reconciled with the requirements for sustained economic growth? This volume brings together the research of leading economists, political scientists, and historians to suggest ways for the IMF to address these issues effectively.
Author: M. Rodwan Abouharb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-31
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 100945112X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Element argues that governments allocate adjustment burdens strategically to protect their supporters, imposing adjustment costs upon the supporters of their opponents, who then protest in response. Using large-N micro-level survey data from three world regions and a global survey, it discusses the local political economy of International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending. It finds that opposition supporters in countries under IMF structural adjustment programs (SAP) are more likely to report that the IMF SAP increased economic hardships than government supporters and countries without IMF exposure. In addition, it finds that partisan gaps in IMF SAP evaluations widen in IMF program countries with an above-median number of conditions, suggesting that opposition supporters face heavier adjustment burdens, and that opposition supporters who think SAPs made their lives worse are more likely to protest.
Author: Alberto Paloni
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1134259247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage. Featuring both macroeconomic and microeconomic approaches, this book brings together an international team of contributors and centres upon three broad themes: the ideology of the IMF and World Bank poverty reduction conditionality. In exploring these themes, this book will be a valuable reference for postgraduate students and professionals in the fields of development studies and political economy.
Author: Joan M. Nelson
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781412823852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Economic reform by Third World governments is usually portrayed as the product of outside pressure, especially from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. This welcome collection provides an important counter-perspective by putting domestic politics at center stage. Miles Kahler demonstrates that international institutions only rarely play an important role."--Orbis' "Joan Nelson and her collaborators have performed a valuable service for those concerned about the politics of reform by bringing together a series of informed and insightful essays that address clearly and concisely the difficult political dilemmas of economic adjustment."--Merilee S. Grindle,Economic Development and Cultural Change