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The World Bank and the IMF in Zimbabwe

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Structural Adjustment in Africa

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Zimbabwe became a member of both the World Bank and IMF shortly after independence in 1980. It is therefore one of their newest members, although followed by Mozambique and Angola which were in effect forced into membership as a result of the failure (or destruction) of their early socialist experiments.

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  1. Central Statistical Office, Monthly Digest of Statistics (Harare: CSO, April 1982).

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  2. J. Bhagwati, Anatomy and Consequences of Exchange Control Regimes (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1978) p. 88.

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  3. See Roger Riddell, Foreign Aid Reconsidered (London: James Currey/ ODI, 1987) ch. 12.

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  4. J.R. Behrman, Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development: Chile (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1976) p. 387.

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© 1989 Bonnie K. Campbell and John Loxley

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Stoneman, C. (1989). The World Bank and the IMF in Zimbabwe. In: Campbell, B.K., Loxley, J. (eds) Structural Adjustment in Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20398-7_3

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