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Review Essay: Adjustment Alternatives and Alternatives to Adjustment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Nicolas van de Walle  and
The World Bank
Nicolas van de Walle
Affiliation:
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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African Studies Review , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , December 1994 , pp. 103 - 117
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1994

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Notes

1. See Ravenhill, John. “Adjustment with Growth: A Fragile Consensus,” in The Journal of Modern African Studies. Vol. 26, no. 2 (1988) pp. 179–210 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. More recently he has reassessed these debates. See his essay “A Second Decade of Adjustment: Greater Complexity, Greater Uncertainty,” in Callaghy, Thomas and Ravenhill, John (eds.) 1993. Hemmed in: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline. New York: Columbia University Press Google Scholar.

2. The full title is: The World Bank (1989). Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth. A Long Term Perspective Study. Washington D.C.: The World Bank Google Scholar.

3. See Sahn, David 1990. Fiscal and Exchange Rate Reforms in Africa; Considering the Impact on the Poor. CFNPP Monograph 4. Ithaca. N.Y.: Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program Google Scholar.

4. See Mosley, Paul, et al 1991. Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy Based Lending in the 1980s. London: Routledge Google Scholar.

5. See Bratton, Michael and van de Walle, Nicolas. 1992. “Popular Protest and Political Transition in Africa,” Comparative Politics, 24/4:419–22CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6. See, for example, Gibbon, Peter. 1992. “The World Bank and African Poverty, 1970-91,” The Journal of Modern African Studies. Vol. 30, no. 2 pp. 193–220 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7. On the orthodox paradox, see Kahler, Miles. 1990. “Orthodoxy and its Alternatives: Explaining Approaches to Stabilization and Adjustment,” in Nelson, Joan, ed. Economic Crisis and Policy Choice: The Politics of Economic Adjustment in the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press Google Scholar.

8. See, for example, the World Bank. “Managing Development: The Governance Dimension.” A Discussion Paper. Washington D.C.: The World Bank (1991)Google Scholar, and Brautigam, Deborah. “Governance, Economy and Foreign Aid.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 27 (Fall, 1992), no.3, pp. 3–25 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.