Download or read book The Effect of the IMF s Structural Adjustment Programmes on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Sheila Linette Betker and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women Pay the Price written by Gloria T. Emeagwali and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this scholarly compilation, Third World researchers argue that IMF/World Bank structural adjustment policies have wreaked havoc especially among women

Download or read book The IMF and the South written by Dharam P. Ghai and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Structural Reform and Growth written by Kevin Greenidge and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980’s with the introduction of IMF/WB adjustment programs structural reforms have been a core part of the reform agenda in the Caribbean. The paper reviewed the package of structural reforms in trade liberalization, financial liberalization and tax policy, and gauges their impact on growth. The paper used a set of reform indices to gauge both short-run and long-run effects of structural reforms on growth, controlling for other possible growth determinants using panel dynamic OLS estimation. In addition, recognizing the importance of institutions to growth the empirical analysis also analyzed the impact of institutional quality on growth for a sample of small states including the Caribbean. We concluded that the benefits of structural reforms are only seen over the long-term and in reinvigorating growth the reform effort needs to be revived and include greater attention to strengthening institutional quality.

Download or read book The Impact of Recession and Structural Adjustment on Women s Work in Developing and Developed Countries written by Sally Baden and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women and Adjustment Policies in the Third World written by Haleh Afshar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third World debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's adjustment policies have compelled many countries to move towards a contraction of public sector expenditure in favour of market orientated development policies. Women in general and the poorest amongst them in particular have borne a disproportionate burden of the ensuing hardships. This book addresses the shortcomings in the current gender blind analytical frameworks of governments and financial organisations and offers alternative strategies for combating recession and poverty.

Download or read book Women at Work in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Natalija Novta and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women across the world remain an underutilized resource in the labor force. Participation in the labor force averages around 80 percent for men but only 50 percent for women – nearly half of women’s productive potential remains untapped compared to one-fifth for men. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as a region, saw the largest gains in female labor force participation (LFP) in the world during the last two decades. Women in LAC are becoming increasingly active in paid work, closing the gap with men and catching up to their counterparts in advanced economies at an impressive rate. In this paper, we document the recent trends in female LFP and female education in the LAC region, discuss the size of potential gains to GDP from increasing female LFP and policies which could be deployed towards this goal.

Download or read book The Impact of IMF Structural Adjustment Policies on Latin America in the 1990s written by Elizabeth Diane Mattern and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Structural Reforms on Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Hubert Escaith and published by Naciones Unidas, CEPAL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an evaluation of the impact of trade and capital account liberalisation in 17 countries during the period 1970-1996. It shows that growth was responsive to investment in both physical and human capital and there was a link between education and capital formation. However in aggregate the reforms did not have a significant direct impact on the growth rate because individual components of reform had offsetting effects. In addition the speed of reform was important, the faster the pace the slower the growth. It seems that the impact of macroeconomic or investment variables was more homogeneous than structural reform..s.

Download or read book Paying the Price written by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies of the negative impact of the debt crisis and structural adjustment presents a new and damning argument against the World Bank and the IMF. They suggest not only that structural adjustment policies have serious consequences for the family and social organization in developing countries, affecting fertility, life expectancy, health, education, the sexual division of labour and land-tenure relations, but that these consequences were foreseen by the architects of the policies. The authors point out that women suffer more than men from structural adjustment, yet it is they who are at the forefront of grassroots mobilization and resistance. Women now represent a particular focus for international institutions whose programmes, in the name of development, are producing ever increasing levels of poverty.

Download or read book The IMF and the Latin American Debt Crisis written by Mr.James M. Boughton and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1994-10-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IMF played a key role in developing and implementing the debt strategy throughout the 1980s. That strategy not only overcame the crisis but also produced successful transformationsof several major economiesin Latin America. Nonetheless, the IMF's role has also been criticized on several grounds. This study examines seven such criticisms.

Download or read book The IMF Structural Adjustment and Health in the Caribbean written by Daphne Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, an assessment of the impact of structural adjustment policies on the living conditions of people in the Caribbean is undertaken through observation of the trends in employment, income, education, nutrition, housing and water supply in the decade of the 1980s. A comparative analysis is carried out on the effects of similar policies on identical living conditions in Brazil in the previous decade. The data show similar patterns of decline in living conditions for the Caribbean in the 1980s as for Brazil in the 1970s. If declines in living conditions result in a measurable decline in health status, then the declines in these conditions observed in the Caribbean in the 1980s have negatively affected health. This negative effect on health is esacerbated further by the simultaneous cuts in health spending and the gradual privatisation of health care services observed in the Caribbean.

Download or read book The Impact of IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs on Women in Ghana written by Erica Danielle Victorson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Major Changes and Crisis written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Women and Development Unit and published by Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated September 1992

Download or read book The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty written by William Russell Easterly and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Jennifer Abbassi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published in Latin American Perspectives--a theoretical and scholarly journal focused on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The reader is organized into thematic sections that focus on work, politics, and culture, and each section includes substantive introductions that identify key issues, trends, and debates in the scholarly literature on women and gender in the region. Demonstrating the rich and multidisciplinary nature of Latin American studies, this collection of timely, empirical studies promotes critical thinking about women's place and power; about theory and research strategies; and about contemporary economic, political, and social conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Valuable as both a supplementary or primary text, Rereading Women makes a convincing claim for a materialist feminist analysis. It convincingly shows why women have become an increasingly important subject of research, acknowledges their gains and struggles over time, and explores the contributions that feminist theory has made toward the recognition of gender as a relevant--indeed essential--category for analyzing the political economy of development.

Download or read book The Challenge of Structural Adjustment in the Commonwealth Caribbean written by Ramesh Ramsaran and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-06-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes recent economic performance in the Commonwealth Caribbean by examining the IMF/World Bank Structural Adjustment Package and its relation to the deteriorating economic and social conditions in this part of the world. Ramesh F. Ramsaran not only takes a critical look at structural adjustment as it has been applied in the Caribbean but also examines recent structural adjustment theory in general and some of its contradictions in practice. Ramsaran argues that if structural adjustment programs are to be effective with minimum social cost, their design must take into account the specific conditions of individual countries. This argument against the general application of policies and principles remains firm, despite the fact that international aid agencies in the 1980s did find general guidelines useful in particular situations. His analysis will be of interest to scholars and policy-makers in international and development economics and international finance and trade.