Is Nigeria back to implementing the cardinal policies that made up the IMF-recommended Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the late 1980s? A review of the actions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ...

The key messages from this article are (a) African countries should learn from their failed past adjustment policies; (b) development policies, including exchange rate regimes, should be predicated on ...

It is now mandatory to offer a critique of the structural adjustment programme, SAP. Such a critique, I believe, is not incompatible with the highest of patriotic duties. Indeed, such a critique can ...

Structural adjustment programmes by the IMF have been characterised, in the neoliberal era, by two overarching goals: a) macroeconomic stabilisation via a reduction in the fiscal deficit, mitigation ...

AU-commissioned report shows a credit rating system that is stacked against developing nations. The report revives debate over fairness and transparency of the credit rating system. Safaricom unveils ...

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 ...

In veiled words, the World Bank acknowledged at the second forum of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI) held in Accra last week, that it made mistakes in its reform ...

The announcement of the recent tax and fiscal reforms came with unpleasant reverberations across the country. Nigerians haven’t stopped talking about these reforms; watching with eerie attention as ...

Is Kenya undergoing a contemporary iteration of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) that were implemented across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s? This question merits consideration as we observe ...

In veiled words, the World Bank acknowledged at the second forum of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI) held in Accra last week, that it made mistakes in its reform ...