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Analysis of the Demery and Squire ‘Adjustment and Poverty’ Evidence

✍ Scribed by John Weeks

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
146 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis

p. 46. Note the implicit and unsupported allegation that heterodox policies involve larger ®scal de®cits and exchange rate over-valuation. Despite the reference to heterodox policies' in this quotation and elsewhere, and allusions to critics' of World Bank structural adjustment policies, the authors cite the work of no critics (the only candidate in the list of references is the Oxfam Poverty Report, which does not focus on Africa). Of the 32 references, 20 are to studies by the World Bank, commissioned by the World Bank, or by the World Bank professionals, and seven more are the poverty surveys upon which the article is based or statistical sources.

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