The market tells them so : the World Bank and economic fundamentalism in Africa

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The market tells them so : the World Bank and economic fundamentalism in Africa

John Mihevc

Zed Books , Third World Network, c1995

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [281]-305

Includes index

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Structural adjustment is not just an economic strategy but, this book argues, embodies a social, cultural and even religious vision for the remaking of Africa and the world. This highly original critique of the World Bank's structural adjustment agenda in Africa explodes the value-free pretensions of economics. It provides a more integrated understanding of questions of faith and values in development than has been available from theologians and social scientists up to now, and helps to explain why churches are so intimately involved in these struggles. The book focuses on three aspects of structural adjustment in Africa: the fundamentalist character of World Bank thinking in the scale of its ambitions and its denial of the legitimacy of contrary views; criticisms of structural adjustment from a variety of social science perspectives; and the resistance to this agenda emerging from African churches and social movements.

Table of Contents

  • The fundamentalist theology of the World Bank
  • prelude to "the crisis" - the World Bank and the modernization of Africa
  • rescheduling our debtors
  • the World Bank and the structural adjustment of Africa
  • the deepening crisis
  • export-oriented growth, international trade and structural adjustment
  • structural adjustment and the environment
  • the ambiguous promise of biotechnology
  • African churches and the crisis of structural adjustment
  • structural adjustment and women - the response of the churches.

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