Mortgaging women's lives: feminist critiques of structural adjustment

"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...

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Other Authors: Sparr, Pamela (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New Jersey Zed Books Ltd [1994]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:X, 214 Seiten
ISBN:1856491013
1856491021

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