Ghana and IMF conditionality: The unevenness in compliance, 1983--2000.

Title: Ghana and IMF conditionality: The unevenness in compliance, 1983--2000.
Identifier: AAI3127845
identifier: 3127845
Creator: Akonor, Kwame.
Contributor: Adviser: W. Ofuatey Kodjoe
Date: 2004
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Political Science, International Law and Relations | Political Science, General
Abstract: Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive IMF reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. Yet questions of Ghana's compliance---to what extent did it comply, how did it manage compliance, what patterns of noncompliance existed, and why?---have not been systematically investigated and remain poorly understood. This dissertation argues that understanding the domestic political environment is key to explaining why compliance, or the lack thereof, occurs. I maintain that compliance with IMF conditionality in Ghana has (had) high political costs thus noncompliance occurred once the political survival of a regime was at stake. I argue that situations in which Ghana did not comply with IMF conditionality were periods prior to elections and periods of elite conflict/instability, when the governments needed to muster domestic support in order to stay in power. The study covers Ghana from 1983 (when it began its structural adjustment) through 2000.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.