The state, interest groups and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe Tor Skålnes Journal of Development

(Versão portuguesa: Mocambique numa encruzilhada. Economia e politica na era de adjustamento estrutural)

Malawi has been regarded by the World Bank as a "strong adjuster", since the introduction of its first structural adjustment programme in 1981. This paper ...

Structural adjustment and poverty Wycliffe Chilowa CMI Report wycliffe chilowa wycliffe chilowa

Current poverty, strutural adjustment and drought in Zimbabwe Catherine M. Marquette World Developm

Structural Adjustment: the Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality Siegfried Pause

Who is losing out? Structural adjustment, gender and the agricultural sector in Zambia Gisela Geisl

Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation ...

(Published in cooperation with Chr. Michelsen Institute and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (Seminar Proceedings no. 26))

Seminar to take stock of Brazil's development 10 years after the coming to power of Lula and PT, with André Singer, professor of political ...

A new paradigm for post-conflict donor intervention was put at test in Afghanistan: adjusting to complex political, military and economic imperatives. ...

An assumed gap between relief and development assistance was widely discussed in the 1990s. Urged to "mind the gap", the multilateral aid agencies ...

Åse Gilje Østensen (UiB) i samtale med Øyvind Strømmen (forfattar og journalist) og Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (UiB).   I ...

Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. The poorer a country is, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international income inequality is substantially underestimated.

Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation ...

This paper examines the hypothesis that heavy foreign debt causes high rates of tropical deforestation. Empirical evidence indicates that no universally ...

How did Norwegian aid respond to the Covid-19 pandemic? Several new initiatives were launched, the aid budget was adjusted to give more emphasis to vaccines ...

In this paper it is suggested that the present modalities for North-South cooperation, and especially the current structural adjustment programmes being ...

The two papers present proposals for the economic reconstruction of Ethiopia, based on the interests of the peasants and other poor groups. In the first ...

Maternal and child health is prioritized in most countries. This leads us to give less priority to the treatment of chronic diseases in adults, such as AIDS. What is the basis for such priorities?