She is a citizen of Zimbabwe where she participated in a study of the effects of economic structural adjustment programs on women in the informal economy.
Global lenders dictate economic structures that increase poverty and cut into health and education.
The woman selling her crochet work at Zimbabwean roadside markets would need to produce and sell 100 hand-crocheted bedspreads. The teacher in Zambia would have to pay 14 months of her salary. The technical expert who comes to Africa on a development mission often earns that amount in a single day. Poor people are further impoverished by macroeconomic policies, collectively known as structural adjustments, that their government adopts as conditions for further borrowing and debt re-scheduling from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. So when aid and debt relief are made conditional on rigid structural adjustment measures that intensify and spread poverty, then the poor have paid twice.