HC Deb 01 March 1993 vol 220 c23W
Mr. Denham

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many countries receiving bilateral assistance from the United Kingdom are currently implementing World bank and/or IMF structural adjustment programs; and if he will list them.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

[holding answer 24 February 1993]: Thirty-five countries which are in receipt of bilateral assistance from the United Kingdom also received support during 1992 from the IMF and/or the World bank for structural adjustment programmes. The countries are as follows:

  • Morocco
  • Egypt
  • Algeria
  • Jordan
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Ghana
  • Sierra Leone
  • The Gambia
  • Senegal
  • Zimbabwe
  • Zambia
  • Tanzania
  • Mozambique
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Malawi
  • Lesotho
  • Ethiopia
  • India
  • Pakistan
  • Bangladesh
  • Nepal
  • Sri Lanka
  • Philippines
  • Brazil
  • Columbia
  • Bolivia
  • Guyana
  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
  • Jamaica
  • Poland
  • Hungary
  • Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
  • Bulgaria

The countries listed are those where our bilateral assistance programme exceeded £250,000 in 1992.