SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, it imposes hundreds, if not thousands, of structural adjustment ...

After decades of criticism for its heavy-handedness, did the International Monetary Fund really change its lending practices? Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007-2008, a number of ...

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was talk of moving away from the previously held austerity consensus – to basically narrow current account, and fiscal deficits, and in turn, to manage ...

Is Nigeria back to implementing the cardinal policies that made up the IMF-recommended Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the late 1980s? A review of the actions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ...

9.9. Comparison of IMF Staff Resources in ESAF Countries and Baltics, Russia, and Other Former Soviet Union (BRO) Countries 9.10. SAF/ESAF Review: List of Program Interruptions 9.11. SAF/ESAF Review: ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become increasingly infatuated by the negative consequences of excessive inequality. This new-found mission is laudable, but neglects the manifold ways its ...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Audu Ogbeh, has blamed Nigeria’s economy crisis on the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) introduced by former Head of State, General Ibrahim ...

Is Kenya undergoing a contemporary iteration of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) that were implemented across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s? This question merits consideration as we observe ...

The announcement of the recent tax and fiscal reforms came with unpleasant reverberations across the country. Nigerians haven’t stopped talking about these reforms; watching with eerie attention as ...

Conditionalities of International Mon etary Fund (IMF) programmes and World Bank (or simply ‘the Bank’) development policy loans have neoclassical underpinnings, which are similar to the neoliberal, ...