Countries with native populations living traditional lifestylesTalk about loaded language What is a native population And doesn t austerity always fail and destroy the economy no matter where it is applied So why blame traditional lifestyles Authors Ikubolajeh Bernard Logan and Kidane Mengisteab make the case in their article IMF World Bank Adjustment and Structural Transformation on Sub Saharan Africa for the ineffectiveness of structural adjustment in part being attributed to the disconnect between the informal sector of the economy as generated by traditional society and the formal sector generated by a modern urban society The other part being that it doesn t work where ever it is applied