Contents: Introduction; Economic and political developments: 1964-1981; The bank's diagnosis and prescriptions; Policy reforms in the agricultural sector: implementation and impact; Modelling the impact of bank conditionality; Reforms in the non-agricultural economic sectors; Macroeconomic impact of the structural adjustment programmme; Structuralist reorientation of the adjustment programme: 1988-1992; Economic reform and the transition to democracy: 1994-2000; Summary and conclusions; Bibliography; Index.