Despite the satisfactory performance of several intensely adjusting sub-Saharan African countries - and successful results in agriculture and food production - the overall results of adjustment achieved...
The sustained application of adjustment policies is explicable in terms of two variables - domestic ownership and capacity. These findings carry important implications for the future policies of African...
This report provides an assessment of structural adjustment policies undertaken by seven African countries in the mid-1980s. This report is distinct from other studies on this subject. First, it emphasizes...
This is just one in a series of essays published in conjunction with the World Bank's Fiftieth Anniversary. This series is devoted to improving the understanding of the evolving role of the World Bank...
Trade, aid, and investment are more inextricably linked in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world, contends the author, whose survey of sub-Saharan Africa's prospects for trade, aid, and investment...
This paper discusses structural adjustment programs in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper explains that structural adjustment programs restructure the productive capacities of a country in order to increase...
The authors compare the experiences of selected Asian countries in attracting different forms of external financing and examine how that financing has contributed to growth. They carry out the analysis...
Economic stability, sound macroeconomic policies, and appropriate microeconomic incentives hold down a country's external debt burden. Most of the Asian countries pursued prudent macroeconomic policies...
External financing for sub-Saharan Africa is a vexing problem with no easy solutions. The regions' macroeconomic policies, domestic savings, and efficiency of resource use - all generally poor - impinge...
Under base scenario assumptions, the authors estimate that the Baker 17 countries will require about $ 18 to $ 20 billion of net new disbursements annually to reverse recent investment trends and bring...