What did structural adjustment adjust

By William R. Easterly. 2005

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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IMF conditionality: theory and evidence (2008, unknown): “Easterly (2005) shows that macroeconomic distortions are not reduced with continued adjustment lending.”
Foreign aid and governance in Africa (2016, unknown): “After ‘Can aid save Africa?’ by Easterly (2005a), the ‘Bottom Billion’ (Collier, 2007), ‘Dead Aid’ (Moyo, 2009), the Eubank (2012) Somaliland hypothesis and the aid-corruption nexus debate (Okada & Samreth, 2012; Asongu, 2012a; Asongu & Jellal, 2013) have had an important impact in advancing…”
Development Aid and International Politics: Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence World Bank Decisions? (2007, background): “Critics (e.g. Easterly 2005) allege that the World Bank has fallen far short of its goals of improving living standards and reducing poverty.”
Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizing Reform (2005, unknown): “A consensus has emerged in recent years that conditionality of this type has been ineffectual (Easterly, 2005; Kapur and Webb, 2000; World Bank, 1998; Collier, 1997).”
The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “…of conditionality argue that it rides roughshod over national sovereignty and amounts to a form of paternalistic neocolonialism (Murray 2005), while others claim that conditionality has simply been ineffectual in removing macroeconomic distortions or stimulating economic growth (Easterly 2005).”
The International Monetary Fund: A review of the recent evidence (2008, background): “variables Bordo and Schwartz 2000 Dicks-Mireaux et al. 2000 Garuda 2000 Lee and Rhee 2000 Przeworski and Vreeland 2000 Evrensel 2002 Hutchison 2003 Vreeland 2003 Dreher and Vaubel 2004a Barro and Lee 2005 Butkiewicz and Yanikkaya 2005 Easterly 2005 Atoian and Conway 2006 Dreher 2006 Eichengreen et”
Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa (2017, background): “With regards to the expected signs, from a theoretical standpoint, development assistance is expected to increase financial development because it is anticipated to bridge the saving-investment gap in less developed countries (Easterly, 2005).”
Are Aid Agencies Improving (2007, unknown): “Coupled with the evidence that recipients of structural adjustment loans had little or no tendency to improve their policies from one loan to the next (Easterly 2005, Van de Walle 2001), a story of multistage adjustment for the most diffi cult cases is not very plausible.”