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18% of the country’s poor and 35% of the extremely poor.[39] The benefits of

adjustment programs failed to trickle down to those who resided in the resource-
poor savanna, who produced food

E-International Relations ISSN 2053-8626 Page 2/11
Conditional Development: Ghana Crippled by Structural Adjustment Programmes
Written by Aramide Odutayoto

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The 30-year structural adjustment experiment has constituted an assault on the
public sector as an essential purveyor and guarantor of population health and

welfare

"Anthropological Perspectives on Structural Adjustment and Public Health."
Pfeiffer, James, and Rachel Chapman.

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All this has been compounded by BWI policies that have pushed African nations into

privatisation programmes before African nations have had the opportunity to build up

sufficient regulatory capacity.

See the following :
This means taking the time to lay the required institutional foundations. In the

United Kingdom it took five years for the regulators of the privatized electricity
industry to master the skills needed to squeeze out benefits for the average

consumer (Newbery, 2001).

If that is the case in an OECD setting, what can one reasonably expect from new
regulators in developing and transition countries?

"Winners and Losers Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatisation"
World Development, Birdsall, Nancy and John Nellis
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There have been many reports of BWI forcing African countries to adopt structural

adjustments, conditionalities and privatisation programmes too quickly.

BWI should develop a ‘tool’ that can inform them as to what capacity an African country
has and to use this to help BWI agree on a more realistic phasing of required structural
changes.
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