After decades of criticism for its heavy-handedness, did the International Monetary Fund really change its lending practices? Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007-2008, a number of ...

Although the Covid-19 pandemic further exposed the already deep cracks in the structural adjustment programme policy framework, and while both the IMF, and the World Bank in the wake of the Covid-19 ...

While Pakistan has been following structural adjustment policies under IMF programmes quite frequently since around the last four decades, economic outcomes have been less than satisfactory, to say ...

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 ...

(a) Review and modify, with the full and equal participation of women, macroeconomic and social policies with a view to achieving the objectives of the Platform for Action; (b) Analyse, from a gender ...

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 ...

Is Kenya undergoing a contemporary iteration of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) that were implemented across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s?