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 ...

Audu Ogbeh, a former minister of agriculture, is captured on video saying Nigeria’s economic woes started in 1986. He said, “The tragedy of Nigeria began in 1986 when we did the structural adjustment ...

The key messages from this article are (a) African countries should learn from their failed past adjustment policies; (b) development policies, including exchange rate regimes, should be predicated on ...

It is now mandatory to offer a critique of the structural adjustment programme, SAP. Such a critique, I believe, is not incompatible with the highest of patriotic duties. Indeed, such a critique can ...

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 ...

Structural adjustment programmes by the IMF have been characterised, in the neoliberal era, by two overarching goals: a) macroeconomic stabilisation via a reduction in the fiscal deficit, mitigation ...

In veiled words, the World Bank acknowledged at the second forum of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI) held in Accra last week, that it made mistakes in its reform ...

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 ...

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 ...