The International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa: A “Disastrous” Record

Abstract

In their 60th anniversary year, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will attempt to highlight their “assistance” to Africa. But in reality, since the 1970s, these institutions have gradually become the chief architects of policies that are responsible for the worst inequalities and the explosion of poverty in the world, especially in Africa. When they began to intervene on that continent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, their stated goal was to “accelerate development.” But the actual record is just disastrous, as this article reveals.