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It is now widely accepted that in many countries the poor suffered additional deprivation during the stabilization and adjustment that took place in the 1980s (Cornia et al. 1987, passim; Helleiner 1985, Addison and Demery 1985, World Bank 1989a). Downward pressure on the conditions of living of poor groups arose from three sources: reductions in real incomes from employment, as employment levels fell and real wages declined; rapid rises in the prices of the goods the poor consume, especially food, following devaluation, increased producer prices for food and the reduction or removal of subsidies; and cuts in government provided services — health, education and economic services — to which the poor had access.
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Cornia, G.A., Stewart, F. (1993). The Fiscal System, Adjustment and the Poor. In: Faini, R., de Melo, J. (eds) Fiscal Issues in Adjustment in Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22790-7_10
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