TY  - BOOK
AU  - The Structural Adjustment
AU  - The Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN)
TI  - Structural adjustment: the SAPRI report: the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty and inequality
SN  - 9781842773895
U1  - 338.9009172 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Business cycles - Developing countries - Case studies
KW  - Poverty - Developing countries - Case studies
N2  - 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
ER  -