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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IMF's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF): Is It Working? The 1980s and early 1990s were an exceptionally difficult period for low-income developing countries, particularly in Africa.

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, ...