Structural Adjustment and Beyond: Long-term Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

The period since 1980 has been called the structural adjustment decade. A great deal has been learnt during this decade of the need to adapt the policies of adjustment and to apply them in appropriate ways in different situations.This book brings together the theory of the researchers and the practical experience of the policy makers. They focus on concrete research findings in both francophone and anglophone Africa and draw out the long term implicationsfor future policy and research.