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Women, poverty, human rights and HIV/AIDS: Argentina. (National Contexts).
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January 1, 2003
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2003 Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In many of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the new millennium has meant a drop in living standards and an important increase in poverty which mainly affect women, children and youth. This situation is the direct consequence of the development and growth strategies pursued at the behest of international organisms such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and endorsed by the developed countries. These entities promoted the consolidation of a new economic paradigm based on deregulation and the elimination of international trade and financial barriers.
However, globalization and the new economic paradigm which led to the imposition of market ...
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