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assistance to agriculture in Africa has a twofold purpose. First, it is a pilot for the proposed IEG study on Bank …-wide assistance in agriculture scheduled for fiscal year 2009. Second, the review provides timely insight into specific issues … relevant to the Bank's renewed focus on agriculture in Africa, especially as expressed in the Africa Action Plan. The central …
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This paper deals with the question of whether the discrimination against agriculture that prevailed in Sub …
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In sub-Saharan Africa, like elsewhere in the Third World, great hopes are attached to industrialization as a means of achieving economic and social development. Are the IMF and the World Bank, via their Structural Adjustment Programmes in the region, helping to create a leaner, more competitive...
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As a result of a donor conference staged by the World Bank in Paris on 3rd and 4th December, 1987, donor countries and international organizations now intend to make $6.4 billion available in the form of a special programme to highly indebted, low-income African countries to carry out structural...
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Das Papier unterzieht Studien der Weltbank über Verlauf und Ergebnis von Strukturanpassung in Subsahara Afrika einer kritischen Würdigung. Zwei zentralen Behauptungen der Bank wird widersprochen: Strukturanpassung hätte zu einem Abbau ökonomischer Renten geführt und man könne...
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The policy paper analyzes the impact and effect of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) on the social cost living in Sub-Saharan African states. The issue of whether the implementation of SAP really mitigated the plight of many, or whether these policies pushed SSA in further economic...
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We survey quantitative fiscal conditionality in selected sub-Saharan African PRGF-supported programs, and assess the conditionality against some possible benchmarks and best practices. While noting many caveats, the paper suggests some possible scope for further attuning of this conditionality...
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