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 ...

Audu Ogbeh, a former minister of agriculture, is captured on video saying Nigeria’s economic woes started in 1986. He said, “The tragedy of Nigeria began in 1986 when we did the structural adjustment ...

This paper seeks to analyse the causes, manifestations, and trajectory of the economic crisis that has engulfed Africa since the early 1970s. It argues, contrary to orthodox analyses of conventional ...

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund has changed and no longer imposes tough “structural adjustment” programmes as it did in poor countries two decades ago, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said.

In this edited transcript of a wide-ranging interview with The Africa Report, World Bank chief economist for Africa Shanta Devarajan talks about the legacy of structural adjustment programmes and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct 7 2025 (IPS) - The World Bank's 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa. Urging trade ...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Audu Ogbeh, has blamed Nigeria’s economy crisis on the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) introduced by former Head of State, General Ibrahim ...

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 ...

South Africa will not consider International Monetary Fund funding accompanied by a structural adjustment programme as it battles to contain the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Finance ...