Title: Mortgaging women's lives
Description: This book explores the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adjustment is. These are followed by feminist critiques of its implications, and then a series of carefully chosen case studies examining the specific dimensions of structural adjustment in countries as diverse as Jamaica, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
Subjects: Wirtschaft, INDUSTRIALIZATION, Policy evaluation, Status of women, WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE, WOMEN WORKERS, Structural adjustment (Economic policy), JAMAICA, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, EGYPT, Economische hervormingen, WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT, Frau, WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT, FEMINISM, Women, GHANA, RURAL AREAS, INFORMAL SECTOR, PHILIPPINES, Vrouwen, STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, NIGERIA, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, TURKEY, PUBLIC SECTOR, Distribution of development benefits, Employment and unemployment, WOMEN MANAGERS, WOMEN'S STATUS, PRIVATIZATION, Case studies, ECONOMIC POLICY, SRI LANKA, Employment, Aufsatzsammlung, Feminist theory, Women, employment, Women, developing countries