Kwame Akonor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. He is also founding director of the New York-based African Development Institute, a non-governmental "think-tank" devoted to critical analyses of--and solutions to--the problems of development in Africa.

• 1. Introduction and Justification for Research  2. Ghana's Evolving Political Economy and the Conundrum of IMF Compliance: 1957-1983  3. The Political Logic of IMF Compliance and its Initial Distributional Impact on Social Groups  4. Compliance with IMF Conditionality and the Politics of Power: 1983-2000  5. Conclusion: Lessons on Compliance and Conditionality

Kwame Akonor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. He is also founding director of the New York-based African Development Institute, a non-governmental "think-tank" devoted to critical analyses of--and solutions to--the problems of development in Africa.

• 1. Introduction and Justification for Research  2. Ghana's Evolving Political Economy and the Conundrum of IMF Compliance: 1957-1983  3. The Political Logic of IMF Compliance and its Initial Distributional Impact on Social Groups  4. Compliance with IMF Conditionality and the Politics of Power: 1983-2000  5. Conclusion: Lessons on Compliance and Conditionality

Kwame Akonor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. He is also founding director of the New York-based African Development Institute, a non-governmental "think-tank" devoted to critical analyses of--and solutions to--the problems of development in Africa.

• 1. Introduction and Justification for Research  2. Ghana's Evolving Political Economy and the Conundrum of IMF Compliance: 1957-1983  3. The Political Logic of IMF Compliance and its Initial Distributional Impact on Social Groups  4. Compliance with IMF Conditionality and the Politics of Power: 1983-2000  5. Conclusion: Lessons on Compliance and Conditionality