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...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an unprecedented economic crisis shutting the exhilarating expectations of economic stability and development associated with independence. In response to the African abysmal economic decline, the Structural Adjustment Programme...