Structural Adjustment

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Structural Adjustment

A government program in a developing country making changes to economic or monetary policies in order to better facilitate growth. For example, a structural adjustment loan may include a stipulation that the borrowing country relax any protectionist subsidies or impose higher taxes to balance the budget. Structural adjustments are necessary in some cases before the IMF or the World Bank will make loans to finance further development. See also: Structural Adjustment Facility.

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Paper attempts to find out the social, political and economic impact of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) joined by Pakistan from 1988 to 2002, with the hope that it would bring macroeconomic stability and democracy in the country, finally leading to economic development after the years of dismal economic performance under various regimes.

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Since the start of the structural adjustment programme in the 1980s, a growing debate has emerged as to the efficiency of these programmes to bring about sustainable economic growth, and as to their impact on poverty and basic needs fulfilment.

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In an effort to rehabilitate its economy and address the issue of balance of payment, Pakistan accepted an IMF structural adjustment programme in 1988 under which it accepted raft of conditionalities.

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The government has taken austerity measures since 1994 in a bid to reform the economy, under an IMF-guided structural adjustment programme.