Structural adjustment
Subtitle: the SAPRIN report : the policy roots of economic crisis, poverty, and inequality
By: by the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN)
Contributors: SAPRIN (Organization)
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Business cycles -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Poverty -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Income distribution -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Other titles: Policy roots of economic crisis, poverty, and inequality
Description: "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.

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."

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