Structural Adjustment in Developing Countries: A Swiss NGO-Perspective

In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 3-24

Abstract

The perspective of Swiss nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) participating in development assistance is canvassed with a view toward the future integration of Swiss development efforts into larger world development policy (eg, by Swiss participation in the International Monetary Fund [IMF]), which is largely geared toward structural adjustment. Past criticisms of IMF & World Bank structural adjustment policy are considered; while these do not falsify the need for structural adjustment in response to the international debt crisis, they do suggest alternative emphases, including structural adjustment by the richer nations of the North. Bibliography, 1 Appendix. A. Levine