The adjustment crisis of the oil-importing developing countries has raised the question as to the specific roles of the IMF and the World Bank in the process of structural adjustment and the actual relationship between their different concepts and programmes. What are the areas of cooperation...

The demand for control over transnational corporations forms part of the demands for a New International Economic Order. The statements about the question of effective means of control are however so far vague and in the context of the demands for a New Economic Order even contradictory. Until...

In this paper the evolution of agricultural policies in Sudan will be reviewed; the policy implications of the three-tier structure of agriculture for resource allocation and resource use will be discussed; the subsectoral agricultural policies with special emphasis on the traditional agricultural...

The study is concerned with all productive economic activities that are non-farm and non-factory in the province of South Darfur. The study concentrates on productive activities because the development goals are not only creation of employment but also provision of cheap consumer goods and...

In this paper the authors try to identify components of a cost-minimizing strategy of structural adjustment which aims to overcome the contrast between stabilization policy and development policy. In order to explain the emergence of the crisis the study analyses the inherited structural...