SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, it imposes hundreds, if not thousands, of structural adjustment ...

After decades of criticism for its heavy-handedness, did the International Monetary Fund really change its lending practices? Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007-2008, a number of ...

Is Nigeria back to implementing the cardinal policies that made up the IMF-recommended Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the late 1980s? A review of the actions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ...

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was talk of moving away from the previously held austerity consensus – to basically narrow current account, and fiscal deficits, and in turn, to manage ...

The Missing Link in Uganda’s Privatisation Story COMMENT | MATHIAS RUKUBA | Uganda’s journey into privatisation, strongly accelerated under the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), was anchored on a ...

The announcement of the recent tax and fiscal reforms came with unpleasant reverberations across the country. Nigerians haven’t stopped talking about these reforms; watching with eerie attention as ...

We present audio from the six-part series, Capitalism by Ilan Ziv. Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and ...

Reforms are perhaps the only constant in every nation's economy. This has been Nigeria's case, as the country has undertaken various reforms to reposition the economy. Every generation of Nigerians ...

Conditionalities of International Mon etary Fund (IMF) programmes and World Bank (or simply ‘the Bank’) development policy loans have neoclassical underpinnings, which are similar to the neoliberal, ...