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Structural Adjustment and Structural Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Some Provisional Conclusions

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This article reviews discussions concerning some of the main methodological difficulties surrounding the evaluation of structural adjustment policies, before suggesting a procedure to ‘save’ empirical discussion about new patterns of economic and social relations. In this light it proceeds to examine evidence gathered by the structural adjustment research programme of Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (Scandinavian Institute of African Studies) on the changing character of the ‘private sector’ and of the voluntary development sphere in contemporary Africa. The main conclusions are that, in what can be called ‘adjustment situations’, the main tendencies in these spheres are for a rise of trading capitals enjoying illicit relations to the state and for a privatization of local development. The article concludes with an argument that, had adjustment been implemented in a fuller and more consistent way, these tendencies would probably have been still more pronounced.

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  • Peter Gibbon, 1996. "Structural Adjustment and Structural Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Some Provisional Conclusions," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 27(4), pages 751-784, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:27:y:1996:i:4:p:751-784
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1996.tb00610.x
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