Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices (Priorities for Development Economics)

by Frances Stewart (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $33.38

  The last decade has brought sharp adjustment and rising poverty for most of the developing world. Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices examines the major causes and results of this situation, including:
  
  *the relationship between structural adjustment and poverty;
  *the extent to which the situation was brought about by internal and/or external policies;
  *the impact of the IMF and World Bank on adjusting countries;
  *government tax and spending policies - with a particular focus on social sector spending;
  *the possiblity of better policies in the future.