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957358
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b711728
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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).
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London ;New York :: Zed Books ;New York :: Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2004.
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xiv, 242 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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1842773887
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: 1842773895
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: 9710325094
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: 9781842773888
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: 9781842773895
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: 9789710325092
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| Notes
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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."
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Additional publishers listed in imprint.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Structural adjustment and the SAPRI/CASA experience -- Trade liberalization policies and their impact on the manufacturing sector: Bangladesh, Ecuador, Ghana, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines and Zimbabwe -- Financial sector liberalization: effects on production and the small enterprise sector: Bangladesh, Ecuador, El Salvador and Zimbabwe -- Employment under adjustment and the effects of labour market reform on working people: Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Zimbabwe -- The Economic and social impact of privatization programs: Bangladesh, El Salvador, Hungary and Uganda -- The impact of agricultural sector adjustment policies on small farmers and food security: Bangladesh, Mexico, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe -- The socioeconomic and environmental impact of mining sector reform: Ghana and the Philippines -- The effects of public expenditure policies on education and health care under structural adjustment: Ecuador, Ghana, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe -- Structural adjustment, poverty and inequality.
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"Born of a unique five-year collaboration among citizens' groups, developing country governments, and the World Bank, this book represents the most comprehensive, real-life assessment of the actual impacts of the liberalization, deregulation, privatization and austerity policies that constitute structural adjustment programmes.
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"The stark conclusion emerges: if there is to be any hope for meaningful development in the countries of the South and for the sustained reduction of poverty and inequality, the Western-inspired and imposed doctrines of structural adjustment and neoliberal economics must go."--Jacket.
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Its authors, the members of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN) that engaged the World Bank's president in this ambitious and highly participatory endeavour, present the concrete consequences of these policies."
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Business cycles-- Developing countries, Case studies.
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Income distribution-- Developing countries, Case studies.
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Poverty-- Developing countries, Case studies.
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)-- Developing countries, Case studies.
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Ajustement structurel (Économie)-- Pays en voie de développement, Cas, Études de.
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Cycles économiques-- Pays en voie de développement, Cas, Études de.
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Pauvreté-- Pays en voie de développement, Cas, Études de.
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Revenu-- Répartition-- Pays en voie de développement, Cas, Études de.
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Business cycles.
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Income distribution.
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Poverty.
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Strukturanpassungspolitik
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Institutionalisme.
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Structurele aanpassing (ontwikkelingseconomie)
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Developing countries.
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Entwicklungsländer
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| Dewey Classification
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338.9/009172/4
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| LC Classification
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HC59.7.S873675 2004
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83.46bcl
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QG 020rvk
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RR 10986rvk
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SAPRIN (Organization)
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| Parallel Title
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Policy roots of economic crisis, poverty, and inequality
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