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Structural adjustment

Structural adjustment programs consist of loans provided by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to countries that experience economic crises. Their stated purpose is to adjust the country's economic structure, improve international... Wikipedia
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Structural adjustment programs (SAPs) consist of loans (structural adjustment loans; SALs) provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World ...
A structural adjustment is a set of economic policy reforms that a country must adopt in order to receive a loan from the International Monetary Fund, ...
Critics contend that the IMF puts short-run "stabilization" measures (budget cutting and inflation reduction) ahead of other objectives such as long-term growth ...
They generally entail severe reductions in government spending and employment, higher interest rates, currency devaluation, lower real wages, sale of government ...
Structural adjustment refers to the comprehensive economic programs that the major international lenders require of developing countries when they are granted a ...
Structural Adjustments policies were enforced in the early 1980 to qualify countries for new loans or for debt rescheduling by the IMF and the World Bank. The ...
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the U.S. has been a principal force in imposing Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) on most countries of the South.
Structural adjustment refers to the comprehensive economic programs that the major international lenders require of developing countries when they are granted a ...
Structural adjustment policies defined an era of development in the global South following the debt crisis of the early 1980s and ending with the move to ...