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Title: | Structural adjustment policies in African countries: a theoretical assessment |
Author: | Okogu, B.E. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Zeitschrift für Afrikastudien |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 71-99 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana Nigeria Zambia |
Subject: | economic policy |
Abstract: | This paper argues that the structural adjustment policies as presently formulated are deficient in their analysis of the current economic crisis facing African countries. This criticism stems not only from the practical difficulties of implementation, as demonstrated for the cases of Zambia, Ghana, and Nigeria, but also from theoretical considerations. The theoretical weakness of the structural adjustment programmes arises from the fact that the peculiar characteristics of underdeveloped countries are ignored. The paper presents a stylized macromodel of the underdeveloped economy, which is used to analyse the effects of some of the adjustment policies. It argues that such factors as profit repatriation and debt payments, the skewed nature of income distribution, and the sterilization of the proceeds of currency auctioning, make the structural adjustment policies produce perverse results, thereby undermining the underdeveloped African economies. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in German. |