Structural adjustment: the SAPRI report: the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty and inequality

By:

The Structural Adjustment

Contributor(s):

The Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2004 Zed Books LondonDescription: xiv, 242 pISBN:

9781842773895

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DDC classification:

338.9009172 S8S8

Summary: Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. This book is the most comprehensive, real-life assessment to date of the impacts of the liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and austerity that constitute structural adjustment. It is the result of a unique five year collaboration among citizensDgroups,developingcountrygovernments,andtheWorldBankitself.Itsauthors,themembersoftheStructuralAdjustmentParticipatoryReviewInternationalNetwork(SAPRIN),revealthepracticalconsequencesformanufacturing,smallenterprise,wagesandconditions,socialservices,health,education,foodsecurity,povertyandinequality.Thestarkconclusionemerges:ifthereistobeanyhopeformeaningfuldevelopment,structuraladjustmentandneoliberaleconomicsmustbejettisoned.

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Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. This book is the most comprehensive, real-life assessment to date of the impacts of the liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation and austerity that constitute structural adjustment. It is the result of a unique five year collaboration among citizensDgroups,developingcountrygovernments,andtheWorldBankitself.Itsauthors,themembersoftheStructuralAdjustmentParticipatoryReviewInternationalNetwork(SAPRIN),revealthepracticalconsequencesformanufacturing,smallenterprise,wagesandconditions,socialservices,health,education,foodsecurity,povertyandinequality.Thestarkconclusionemerges:ifthereistobeanyhopeformeaningfuldevelopment,structuraladjustmentandneoliberaleconomicsmustbejettisoned.

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