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Do World Bank and IMF Policies Work?

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  • © 1999

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  1. Shahrukh Rafi Khan

    1. Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Shahrukh Rafi Khan
      Pages 1-12

  3. Testing Hypotheses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Structural Adjustment, Aid, Debt and Growth

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      Pages 15-31

    3. Devaluation and the Balance of Trade

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      Pages 32-47

    4. Financial Sector Reform

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      Pages 48-63

    5. Comparative Privatization Experience: Employee and Private Ownership

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      Pages 64-84

    6. Structural Adjustment, Industrialization and Export Promotion

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      Pages 85-109

  4. Assessing Impact

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Structural Adjustment, Labour and the Poor

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      Pages 113-123

    3. Gender and Structural Adjustment

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      Pages 124-137

    4. Structural Adjustment and Health

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      Pages 138-153

    5. Trade Liberalization and the Environment

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      Pages 154-168

    6. Structural Adjustment and Food Security

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      Pages 169-189

    7. Summary and Conclusion

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      Pages 190-194

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 195-197
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About this book

The term 'structural adjustment' has been associated with rioting as angry and hungry masses protest food price increases due to subsidy cuts or due to other structural adjustment conditions prescribed by the IMF and the World Bank. Structural adjustment, and the neo-liberal paradigm that underlies it, is now the dominant economics paradigm practised by developing countries. The main purpose of the book is to rely on evidence and to go beyond rhetoric, ideology and anecdotes in assessing structural adjustment in Pakistan and the developing world more generally to examine how reform can be combined with pragmatism and social justice.

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'This book presents a timely analysis, at once empirical, comprehensive and balanced, of the impact of structural adjustment policies in Pakistan. It is very important as the juggernaut of structural adjustment rolls across lagging countries, that we keep improving our empirical understanding of what this is doing to economic growth, industrialization, indigenous capital formation, and human development. Dr. Khan's volume will serve as an indispensable resource for all students of the Pakistani economy.' - M.Shahid Alam, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shahrukh Rafi Khan

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Shahrukh Rafi Khan is Executive Director of Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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