IMF Support for African Adjustment Programs
Author: F. L. Osunsade
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1557753539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: F. L. Osunsade
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1557753539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gregory Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 019764421X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Borrowing is a crucial source of financing for governments all over the world. If they get it wrong, then debt crises can bring progress to a halt. But if it's done right, investment happens and conditions improve. African countries are seeking calmer capital, to raise living standards and give their economies a competitive edge. The African debt landscape has changed radically in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Since the clean slate of extensive debt relief, states have sought new borrowing opportunities from international capital markets and emerging global powers like China. The new debt composition has increased risk, exacerbated by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: richer countries borrowed at rock-bottom interest rates, while Africa faced an expensive jump in indebtedness. The escalating debt burden has provoked calls by the G20 for suspension of debt payments. But Africa's debt today is highly complex, and owed to a wider range of lenders. A new approach is needed, and could turn crisis into opportunity. Urgent action by both lenders and borrowers can reduce risk, while carefully preserving market access; and smart deployment of private finance can provide the scale of investment needed to achieve development goals and tackle the climate emergency.
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781463902766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781463930318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 135180958X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2001: Bringing together geographers, planners, political scientists, economists, rural development specialists, bankers, public administrators and other development experts, this volume questions the benefits of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs). It critically assesses the impact of SAPs from a wider perspective than a purely economic one, highlighting concerns about impacts of adjustments on the more vulnerable elements of society such as social welfare, the environment, labour, gender and agriculture. Revealing both the costs and benefits of the economic restructuring programme, the book also suggests alternatives to current development models, and how SAPs can be made more sustainable. An original and comprehensive addition to the collections of both students and practitioners of development.
Author: Mr.Saleh M. Nsouli
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published: 1985-04-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781557750563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper reviews recent experience of African countries in the design and implementation of adjustment programs supported by use of Fund resources.
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 155250204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James M. Boughton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 019923986X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book seeks to provide objective analysis of the role and effectiveness of multilaterals in general and the IMF and World Bank in particular. The IMF is a multilateral financial institution with a mandate to promote financial and macroeconomic stability, cooperative economic policies, and a balanced growth of international trade. More than two fifths of its 185 members are low-income countries and many others have substantial pockets of poverty in their populations. Since economic development and the reduction of poverty are the most important economic challenges that these countries face, how can the IMF best help them? How can the imperative of macroeconomic and financial stability be reconciled with the requirements for sustained economic growth? This volume brings together the research of leading economists, political scientists, and historians to suggest ways for the IMF to address these issues effectively.