Macroeconomic Adjustment and the Poor
Author | : Pierre-Richard Agénor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Equality |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pierre-Richard Agénor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Equality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grant MacDonald Scobie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : 9781564010018 |
Author | : Ed Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1135099529 |
Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews what constitutes as a standard adjustment programme, detailing the political, economic, social and environmental impacts of SAPs. The final section draws together theories and political responses and presents a case for alternatives to the programmes.
Author | : Thomas J. Kelly |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-12-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429760663 |
First published in 1999, this study seeks to explore the effects of economic adjustment and why the classical prescriptions for structural adjustment did not succeed in Mexico, or at best succeeded only partially. It asks why growth was retarded, not accelerated; inequality rose rather than fell; poverty increased rather than declined; informalization of the economy occurred rather than modernization. Mexico’s story needs to be better known and this book is a good place to begin, containing numerous insights and valuable lessons for analysts and policy makers alike.
Author | : S. M. Ravi Kanbur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Debts, External |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre-Richard Agenor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
This paper studies the links between macroeconomic adjustment and poverty. The first part summarizes some of the recent evidence on poverty in the developing world. The second reviews the various channels through which macroeconomic policies affect the poor, whereas the third is devoted to the specific role of the labor market. It presents an analytical framework that captures some of the main features of the urban labor market in developing countries and studies the effects of fiscal adjustment on wages, employment, and poverty. The fourth part presents cross-country regressions linking various macroeconomic and structural variables to poverty. Higher levels and growth rates of per capita income, higher rates of real exchange rate depreciation, better health conditions, and a greater degree of commercial openness lower poverty, whereas inflation, greater income inequality, and macroeconomic volatility tend to increase it. Moreover, the impact of growth on poverty appears to be asymmetric; it seems to result from a significant relationship between episodes of increasing poverty and negative growth rates.
Author | : Pierre-Richard Ag??nor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The author studies the links between macroeconomic adjustment and poverty. First, he summarizes some of the recent evidence on poverty in the developing world. Second, he reviews the various channels through which macroeconomic policies affect the poor. Third, the author emphasizes the role of the labor market. He develops an analytical framework that captures some of the main features of the urban labor market in developing countries and studies the effects of fiscal adjustment on wages, employment, and poverty. Fourth, he presents cross-country regressions linking various macroeconomic and structural variables to poverty. The author finds that output growth and real exchange rate depreciations tend to lower poverty, while illiteracy, income inequality, and macroeconomic volatility tend to increase poverty. In addition, the impact of growth on poverty appears to be asymmetric, and to result from a significant relationship between episodes of increasing poverty and negative growth rates.
Author | : Joan M. Nelson |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781412823852 |
"Economic reform by Third World governments is usually portrayed as the product of outside pressure, especially from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. This welcome collection provides an important counter-perspective by putting domestic politics at center stage. Miles Kahler demonstrates that international institutions only rarely play an important role."--Orbis' "Joan Nelson and her collaborators have performed a valuable service for those concerned about the politics of reform by bringing together a series of informed and insightful essays that address clearly and concisely the difficult political dilemmas of economic adjustment."--Merilee S. Grindle,Economic Development and Cultural Change
Author | : Pierre-Richard Agenor |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2009-02-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1405171391 |
Pierre-Richard Agenor's pioneering work on IntegratedMacroeconomics Models for Poverty Analysis (IMMPA) is cataloged forthe first time in this must-read volume. A class of dynamic computable general equilibrium models, IMMPAmodels are designed to analyze the impact of adjustment policies onunemployment and poverty in the developing world. Including bothpapers originally circulated through the World Bank, as well as newmaterial that places this important work in its larger context,Adjustment Policies, Poverty, and Unemployment details the historyand uses of these models to date, as well as pointing to futuredevelopments for their utilization.
Author | : Lionel Demery |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821309568 |
This study has identified a number of examples in which concerns about the alleviation of poverty have been given some practical expression in adjustment programs. Because most of these examples are of very recent origin, it is difficult to assess how effective they have been in helping the poor. First, one striking feature of the illustrations compiled is that they are invariably orderly or planned structural adjustment programs that have often been implemented with Bank assistance (Bolivia, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Thailand). Second, income distributions will inevitably change during adjustment. These changes are the principal incentives for resource reallocation, and without them the objectives of adjustment will not be realized. Third, the study highlights the advantages of interventions that increase the primary income claims of the poor. Finally, adjustment can act as a catalyst for policymakers to examine carefully the costs and benefits of their programs for the poor.