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Debt and Structural Adjustment in Africa: Realities and Possibilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Thomas M. Callaghy
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Since the middle of the 1970s Sub-Saharan African states have focused increasingly on their severe economic and fiscal crises. These involve wrestling with the burdens of debt service and the rigors of rescheduling, conducting difficult negotiations with bilateral and private creditors, bargaining over conditionality packages with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank or fending them off, distributing the painful costs of adjustment, coping with import strangulation and devising new development policies and strategies. Already highly dependent on the outside world, the intensity, stakes and levels of conditionality of these relations with external actors have increased substantially.

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Focus: African Development Revisited
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African Issues , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 11 - 18
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1988 

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1. Benin, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire and Zambia. Angola will be added if it joins the IMF.

2. World Bank, World Debt Tables: External Debt of Developing Countries, vol. 1, Analysis and Summary Tables, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 1988, p. xxi Google Scholar.

3. Organization of African Unity, “Draft Declaration of the Third Extraordinary Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on Africa’s External Debt Crisis,” 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 1987, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, p. 3.

4. Novicki, Margaret A., “Interview with Edward V.K. Jaycox, Vice-President, Africa Region, The World Bank,” Africa Report, v. 32, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1987, p. 32 Google Scholar.

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6. See my “The State as Lame Leviathan: The Patrimonial Administrative State in Africa,” in Ergas, Zaki, ed., The African State in Transition, London, Macmillan, 1987, pp. 87–116 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and my “The State and the Development of Capitalism in Africa: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Reflections,” in Rothchild, Donald and Chazan, Naomi, eds., The Precarious Balance: State - Society Relations in Africa, Boulder, CO., Westview, 1988, pp. 67–99 Google Scholar.