Structural Adjustment, the Saprin Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality - Couverture rigide

SAPRIN

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ISBN 10 : 1842773887 ISBN 13 : 9781842773888

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Interna

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Revue de presse

'An excellent expose of how people's human rights are being sacrificed on the altar of the free market in the name of development.' --Professor Fantu Cheru, former UN Special Rapporteur on Structural Adjustment

'Structural adjustment has been the most controversial economic and social policy model foisted onto a reluctant Third World in the past two to three decades. SAPRIN has been a pioneering network tracking, critiquing and acting on its damaging effects. This vitally important book cogently summarizes the various effects of structural adjustment and should be read by all who care about the developing world.' --Martin Khor, Third World Network

'Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report illustrates the devastating impact that structural adjustment policies, undemocratically imposed by the international financial institutions, have had on national productive capacity, employment, wages and the growing number of people in poverty. It captures what we in Mexico and Latin America have fought against for the past two decades and is all the more pertinent given the intensifying challenges to neoliberalism in the region.' --Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, former Senator, Governor and Mexican presidential candidate

Présentation de l'éditeur

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries. The World Bank and the IMF have compelled country after country to adopt a 'one size fits all' economic strategy, so exposing the world's weakest economies to the full force of the global market place. This is a comprehensive, real-life assessment of the impacts of the liberalization, deregulation, privatization 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1842773887
• ISBN 13: 9781842773888
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 256