This study applies statistical analysis to estimate the macroeconomic effects of Fund-supported adjustment programs on African countries during the period 1973-86. The results indicate that inflation fell significantly in countries with adjustment programs that were implemented satisfactorily....

This paper examines the relative importance of monetary growth and exchange rate depreciation as causes of inflation in a sample of 10 Sub-Saharan African countries. Causality tests and impulse response functions derived from vector autoregression (VAR) analysis suggest that both monetary...