Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 19 No. 54 World Bank in Africa: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Abstract of Debate

Title:	The World Bank in Africa: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Author:	Ankie Hoogvelt, David Phillips, and Phil Taylor
Location:	Vol.19 No.54 (July 1992), pp92-96

In the last decade it has become standard practice in the literature, not least that flowing from World Bank staff pens, to treat sub-Saharan Africa as one continent: forty-five extremely diverse nations which are nevertheless thought to have common characteristics, common features, common problems and common prospects. Increasingly, the entire edifice of internationally sponsored aid programmes, such as, for example, the IMF/WB jointly sponsored Structural Adjustment Programmes, has been built on this classification of commonality.

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