Adjusting Society: The World Bank, the IMF and Ghana (International Library of African Studies) - Hardcover

Brydon, Lynn; Legge, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860640001 ISBN 13: 9781860640001

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 1996

Synopsis

Since 1983 Ghana has become a test case of the efficacy of the World Bank and the IMF's stabilization and adjustment-based lending policies. The government has ""bitten the IMF bullet"" with a vengeance, with deregulated currency, liberalized trade, slimmed down state-owned enterprises and strengthened bureaucracies as prescribed by the lending institutions. In terms of compliance, Ghana has been a model patient. The outcomes of the policies are, however, only beginning to be documented.

This study looks at the lives of Ghanaian men and women after almost ten years of adjustment and reveals adjustment and its concomitant effects as part of a continuous and ongoing process within the contemporary history and development of Ghana. District, regional and national perspectives are also woven into the picture, giving both wider macro- and more qualitative emphases.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynne Brydon is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool.
Karen Legge teaches sociology at Cambridge Regional College, and completed her ph.D on Ghana in 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1860640001
• ISBN 13: 9781860640001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222