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Introduction

In: Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?

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  • Shahrukh Rafi Khan

    (Sustainable Development Policy Institute)

Abstract

Do World Bank and IMF policies work? The idea of writing or editing a book on this topic first came to mind when I was teaching a course in development economics at Vassar College. Teaching structural adjustment (SA) as the central element of a development economics course is unavoidable, since it represents the most predominant set of economic policies confronting poor countries. Also, it can provide a logical and coherent way of structuring a course since its scope is vast and it provides an entry point to most sectoral issues and to the debate on various schools of thought in development economics, both on a broad level and on a sectoral level. The difficulty I confronted in teaching such a course was finding evidence to report. Much of the evidence was of a cross-country nature, which many scholars found unsatisfactory. Country case studies were available, but they rarely used time series data in a systematic way.

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  • Shahrukh Rafi Khan, 1999. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?, pages 1-12, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37325-9_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230373259_1
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