ABSTRACT
IMF interventions are supposed to deal with economic crises. They usually have serious political and economic reverberations. This paper deals with the economic and political events surrounding the IMF intervention in the Sudan following the economic crisis of 1978. It provides an account of the devaluation debate between Sudanese and IMF officials prior to the IMF intervention. It examines the Fund’s conditionality measures accompanying the 1978 Stand-by Arrangement, the 1979 Extended Arrangement, and the 1981 Second Stand-by Arrangement In addition, some of the political and economic ramifications of the IMF programmes are considered.
