The phrase "adjustment program to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a program designed to make changes or improvements in a specific area or context.
Example: "The government has implemented an adjustment program to address the economic challenges faced by the community."
Alternatives: "modification plan to" or "reform initiative to".
The second is for the troika (EC Commission, ECB, IMF) and the Greek authorities to cooperate on the design of a new mutually acceptable adjustment program to be adopted by a wider political spectrum in Greece than just the current government.
Another component of the IMF/World Bank's "adjustment program" to service external debt is called elimination of "price distortions," or establishment of "market-based pricing". These are fancy, obfuscationist terms for raising prices on essential needs such as food, water and utilities.
The largest elementary school in the area, Union has an overflow of 600 students which it distributes among a dozen schools on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley through the district's "capacity adjustment" program to relieve inner-city crowding.
"People are saying, 'I may lose my job, or somebody else is going to get my job because of free trade.' And what's very important for people like me who believe in markets is one, to explain the economic benefits, but also to assure people that there's trade adjustment programs to help people retrain for better jobs". The trade debate has flavored the presidential campaigns.
The election last month of a Greek government committed to sticking to a fiscal adjustment program agreed to with the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund in exchange for €240 billion, or $290 billion, in loans has brought only a temporary respite.
The major effects on social structure, which are often difficult to trace to specific elements of structural adjustment programs (say, to import liberalization as opposed to cuts in state employment) have to do with poverty, income inequality and changing gender relations: for example, the disproportionate impact both on women's incomes and on their household activities (see e.g. [ 70, 110]).
The Democratic-controlled House voted 264 to 157 to expand the Trade Adjustment Assistance program to include service workers like X-ray technicians and call-center employees and to expand a tax break to help the unemployed pay for health insurance.
In the 1980s the International Monetary Fund, which with its sister institution the World Bank has directed much of the donor aid to Africa, pushed "structural adjustment programs," attempting to shrink African governments, trim bloated public sectors and open up trade.
But consider this: About 125 of the Democrats currently in the House voted to renew the trade adjustment program three years ago, compared to 40 on Friday.
Economists accept that during the initial stage of a major spending adjustment program, the debt-to-G.D.P. ratio will spike as economic growth suffers.
Growth is the key: without it, any adjustment program is doomed to fail.
