Structural adjustment theory, practice and impacts /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. |
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| Description: | xx, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4319714 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface and prospectus
- Abbreviations
- Part I. Histories and theories of adjustment
- Introduction
- 1. The long road to structural adjustment
- Introduction
- The post-colonial state and the imperative for reform
- The debt crisis
- The Bretton Woods Institutions, the Third World and the neo-liberal consensus
- Conclusion
- 2. What is structural adjustment?
- Introduction
- The development of structural adjustment
- The role of the international financial institutions
- The neo-classical paradigm
- The policy options
- Critique of the neo-classical model
- Conclusion
- Part II. Adjustment in practice
- Introduction
- 3. The macro-economic impacts of structural adjustment lending
- Introduction
- General trends in economic performance
- Policy reforms and outcomes
- Conclusion
- 4. Social consequences of structural adjustment
- Introduction
- The effects of SAPs on poverty and well-being
- Locating winners and losers
- SAPs and the gender gap
- Coping with adjustment
- SAPs and poverty alleviation
- Conclusion
- 5. Contested sovereignty and democratic contradictions: the political impacts of adjustment
- Introduction
- The state-market debate and the neo-liberal backlash
- Contested autonomy: the politics of policy formulation
- The paradoxes of implementing adjustment
- The IFIs respond: the issue of governance
- Conclusion: resistance and new political spaces
- 6. The environmental aspects of adjustment
- Introduction
- (Un) sustainable development, the ideology of science and SAPs
- The political ecology of SAPs
- The impacts
- Case studies
- Responses to environmental impacts
- Ways ahead
- Part III. Alternatives to adjustment
- Introduction
- 7. Tinkering with the system: adjusting adjustment
- Introduction
- Negotiating with Big Brother: conditionality or consensus?
- The institutional debate
- Conclusions: the post-Washington consensus?
- 8. The search for more radical alternatives
- Introduction
- The international dimension
- Restructuring the socialist alternative
- The state of the left today
- The search for renewal
- 9. Social movements, the state and civil society
- Grassroots economic strategies
- The NGO-isation of the world
- The left and the grassroots movements
- Social movements and the wider political arena
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
