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Rethinking Economic Reform: The Controversial Outcomes Of Structural Adjustment.
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Harvard International Review
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Lofchie, Michael F.
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The co-authors of Human Rights and Structural Adjustment, M. Rodwan Abouharb and David Cingranelli, present a simple and straightforward argument: the economic reform programs initiated by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the 1980s, which tended to be lumped together under the awkward phrase "structural adjustment," caused a progressive worsening of human rights conditions in the countries that undertook them. The longer a country was exposed to structural adjustment, the worse the country's human rights conditions became. To make matters worse, these authors argue, there is little or no convincing evidence that these economic reform programs led to improved ...
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