Structural Adjustment by Mohan, Giles, Milward, Bob, Brown, Ed, Zack-Williams, Alfred B. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Cover Structural adjustment Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface and prospectus Abbreviations Part I Histories and theories of adjustment

Introduction 1 The long road to structural adjustment

Introduction The post-colonial state and the imperative for reform The debt crisis The Bretton Woods Institutions, the Third World and the neo-liberal consensus Conclusion

2 What is structural adjustment?

Introduction The development of structural adjustment The role of the international financial institutions The neo-classical paradigm The policy options Critique of the neo-classical model Conclusions

Part II Adjustment in practice

Introduction 3 The macro-economic impacts of structural adjustment lending

Introduction General trends in economic performance Policy reforms and outcomes Conclusions

4 Social consequences of structural adjustment

Introduction The effects of SAPs on poverty and well-being Locating winners and losers SAPs and the gender gap Coping with adjustment SAPs and poverty alleviation Conclusions

Introduction The state–market debate and the neo-liberal backlash Contested autonomy: the politics of policy formulation The paradoxes of implementing adjustment The IFIs respond: the issue of governance Conclusion: resistance and new political spaces

6 The environmental aspects of adjustment

Introduction (Un)sustainable development, the ideology of science and SAPs The impacts Case studies Responses to environmental impacts Ways ahead

Part III Alternatives to adjustment

Introduction 7 Tinkering with the system: adjusting adjustment

Introduction Negotiating with Big Brother: conditionality or consensus? The institutional debate Conclusions: the post-Washington consensus?

8 The search for more radical alternatives

Introduction The international dimension Restructuring the socialist alternative The state of the left today The search for renewal

9 Social movements, the state and civil society

Grassroots economic strategies The NGO-isation of the world The left and the grassroots movements Social movements and the wider political arena Conclusion

Bibliography Index