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International Governance and Implications for Development Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Experience and Perspectives for the Future

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Since the 1980s, development policy in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been shaped increasingly by the policy leverage of multilateral financial institutions. This leverage derives from the explicit high conditionality approach to the disbursement of resources from these institutions and those from other resources leveraged by them in support of the various economic reform programmes in the region.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Ottawa, Canada

    Roy Culpeper (President of the North-South Institute) (President of the North-South Institute)

  2. Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada

    Albert Berry (Professor) (Professor)

  3. International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, UK

    Frances Stewart (Director, Fellow of Somerville College) (Director, Fellow of Somerville College)

  4. University of Oxford, UK

    Frances Stewart (Director, Fellow of Somerville College) (Director, Fellow of Somerville College)

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Ndulu, B.J. (1997). International Governance and Implications for Development Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Experience and Perspectives for the Future. In: Culpeper, R., Berry, A., Stewart, F. (eds) Global Development Fifty Years after Bretton Woods. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25570-2_15

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