Debt crises are back with a vengeance as the dollar goes from strength to strength and interest rates rise. Women sift stones for building material at the abandoned slagheap of the Chinese-owned ...

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 ...

Jason Hickel, Salmaan Keshavjee, Maxine Burkett and Eugene T. Richardson, “Structural adjustment: damages, reparations and pathways to non-recurrence”, BMJ Global Health, March 2026. The 1970s were a ...

International Monetary Fund Along with the World Bank, the IMF was founded on the day the Bretton Woods Agreements were signed. Its first mission was to support the new system of standard exchange ...

Miguel Ángel Contreras Naterra teaches sociology at Venezuela’s Central University. His recent books include Insurgent Imaginaries and Postneoliberalism in Latin America (Stanford University Press, ...

Structural adjustment programmes by the IMF have been characterised, in the neoliberal era, by two overarching goals: a) macroeconomic stabilisation via a reduction in the fiscal deficit, mitigation ...

Structural Adjustments policies were enforced in the early 1980 to qualify countries for new loans or for debt rescheduling by the IMF and the World Bank. The requested kind of adjustment aims at ...