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

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

by the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN)

Zed Books, 2004

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"A report on a joint participatory investigation by civil society and the World Bank of the impact of structural adjustment policies"

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index

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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 citizens' groups, developing country governments, and the World Bank itself. Its authors, the members of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN), reveal the practical consequences for manufacturing, small enterprise, wages and conditions, social services, health, education, food security, poverty and inequality. The stark conclusion emerges: if there is to be any hope for meaningful development, structural adjustment and neoliberal economics must be jettisoned.

Table of Contents

1. SAPRI/CASA Experience 2. Trade Liberalization Policies and Their Impact on the Manufacturing Sector - Bangladesh, Ecuador, Ghana, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines and Zimbabwe 3. Financial Sector Liberalization, Effects on Production and the Small Enterprise Sector - Bangladesh, Ecuador, El Salvador and Zimbabwe 4. Employment under Adjustment and the Effects of Labor Market Reform on Working People - Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Zimbabwe 5. The Economic and Social Impact of Privatization Programs - Bangladesh, El Salvador, Hungary and Uganda 6. The Impact of Agricultural Sector Adjustment Policies on Small Farmers and Food Security - Bangladesh, Mexico, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe 7. The Socioeconomic and Environmental Impact of Mining Sector Reform - Ghana and the Philippines 8. The Effects of Public Expenditure Policies on Education and Health Care under Structural Adjustment - Ecuador, Ghana, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe 9. Structural Adjustment, Poverty and Inequality

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