The current economic reforms and debt relief initiative being promoted and pushed by the IMF and the World Bank on the African countries seek to foster economic growth by the balancing of national budgets and the liberalisation of markets. Using the case studies of Senegal and Sierra Leone, Yassine Fall demonstrates that these policies violate the right of women to sustainable human development by depriving them of proper access to and control over resources and the right to participate in economic policy formulation.