Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria

Health transition research in Nigeria in the era of the Structural Adjustment Programme.

Ethnicity and Prostate Cancer in Southern Nigeria: A Preliminary Report

INTRODUCTION The natural history of prostate cancer varies among patients. The aim of this study is to detect any variations in clinical and pathological characteristics of the tumor in patients from different ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria. PATIENTS AND METHODS Consecutive patients who presented with features of prostatic diseases at the Urology Units of University of Port Harcourt Teachi...

Decentralization and structural adjustment in Hungary

Hungary has gone through a radical structural change after the fall of the socialist block in Central-Eastern Europe. Two basic processes dominated the transition: privatization and decentralization. The Hungarian experiences have given evidence that political decentralization of the state sector can have a substantial contribution to an efficient economic adjustment in the transitional recessi...

Structural adjustment, women, and agriculture in Cameroon.

This article assesses the impact of economic structural programs on the agricultural activities of women's groups in Cameroon, and explores women's ways of coping with the reduction in individual and family income and the loss of public services. It examines the role of 25 women's groups in both rural and urban areas of Cameroon's northwest and southwest provinces in a study conducted from Apr...

Sovereign Debt , Structural Adjustment , and Conditionality 1

The lack of proper enforcement mechanism for sovereign debt generates a commitment failure. As a result, a sovereign may seek to improve its position in debt renegotiations and thus evade its debt obligations by reducing exports. Conditionality seeks to provide a solution to the incentive problem by addressing the commitment failure. Formalizing this argument, we show that conditionality helps ...