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When Alberto Fujimori campaigned for president of Peru W i n 1990, he ran on a platform in which he promised to institute a moderate program of gradual economic stabilization, including the privatization of certain state-owned enterprises. These promises were instrumental in his scoring an upset victory over writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who had been the odds-on favorite to win just three months earlier — and, thus, to become Peru's third popularly elected president in his country's ten years of continuous democracy.Nevertheless, soon after Alán García relinquished the presidential office, in July 1990, to the newly-elected president, those election promises underwent a dramatic reversal. On the grounds that he had inherited a bankrupt country which left him no alternative (no habia otra cosa que hacef), the new president moved quickly to establish a stabilization program of classic orthodoxy in August 1990 (Fujimori, 1990).

Nach einer kurzen Erörterung der nigerianischen Wirtschaftskrise und der wirtschaftspolitischen Gegenmaßnahmen von 1981 bis 1985 werden die Kernelemente des Ende 1985 verabschiedeten und noch laufenden strukturellen Anpassungsprogramms beschrieben. In einer vorläufigen Bilanz der Erfolge und Defizite des Programms wird die Auffassung vertreten, daß zu viel in zu kurzer Zeit erreicht werden sollte, und daß die sozialen Folgekosten unterschätzt wurden. (DÜI-Hns)