"structural adjustment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most commonly used when referring to changes or modifications made to a structure or system in order to improve performance or efficiency. For example, "The corporation implemented a structural adjustment in order to cut costs and increase profits."
Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) included forced privatisation, public spending cuts and lowered taxes on the global south.
Instead of "No Nukes" and "Down With the Military-Industrial Complex," the Capitol was awash in signs like "No to Debt, No to Structural Adjustment Programs".
Now the regional economy is undergoing reorganization and structural adjustment.
What we got instead was the IMF, structural adjustment policies and more than half a century of largely unnecessary pain and suffering for the world's poorest countries.
Taking advantage of the Third World debt crisis, the IMF and the World Bank imposed structural adjustment in over 70 developing countries in the course of the 1980s.
One of the principal conditions of the structural adjustment loans the IMF provided Russia in the early 90s was that it cut spending on social programs.
It was, in the idiom of the IMF, a "structural adjustment programme".
He used to blame many of Zimbabwe's economic woes on the IMF's structural adjustment programme.
The Asian Development Bank, for example, conducted structural adjustment programmes across the region in the late 1990s that led to swinging public-sector cuts, trade liberalisation and privatisation.
In the technocratic nomenclature of the IMF, this would be called a "structural adjustment programme", but that doesn't really capture the sweeping scale of the transformation.
Mandated by the US constitution as a service vital to democracy, the post office has fallen victim to structural adjustment as well as to electronic communication.
