This study investigates women's individual and collective responses to the processes of structural adjustment in Nigeria. Structural adjustment, or SAP, is the package of macro economic conditionalities imposed on African economies in crisis by the International Monetary Fund an…
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This dissertation examines peasant attitudes toward the World Bank-supervised Nigerian Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) introduced in 1986. It focuses on explaining Yoruba peasant farmers' responses to the SAP and evaluates the program's impact on peasant agriculture. This st…
This dissertation studies the social effects of macroeconomic shocks and examines various ways to minimize unintended social consequences. In Part I, we study the impact of the Asian Crisis on land clearing behavior. Then, in Part II, we discuss how to design development interve…
Ethiopia, after a long period of civil war and centralized economic management, has turned in 1991/92 into a market economy, supported by the International Monetary Funds stabilization and World Bank structural adjustment loans. The government has shown its determination to comp…
This study focuses on the economic and political transformation of the Egyptian state after it applied neoliberal structural adjustment policies in May 1991, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It dem…
This dissertation comprises three essays representing three perspectives on viewing structural changes in the economy: macro, meso, and micro perspectives. The main objective of the first essay is to analyze changes in the pattern of intersectoral linkages, whether the changes w…
In October 1992, the government of Ethiopia, backed by the IMF and the World Bank, implemented a structural adjustment and macroeconomic policy reform program. The objective of the program is to revitalize the economy by creating a market-oriented system. The dissertation invest…
After the demise of the Soviet Union, youth in independent Azerbaijan have entered a period when not only has the system that guided their advancement toward adulthood lost formal structures, but the strong, multiplex social ties that lent social support and security have also l…
The starting point of the present dissertation is the study of the historical formation of Southern Africa as an integrated region of the modern world-economy. This is considered through the analysis of the main forms of successive, unequal relationship between the core and the …
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many developing countries previously oriented towards Moscow, liberalized their economies via structural adjustment programs. While the efficacy of these programs sparks lively debates in the development literature, little attention is…