You live long enough, you get to see all kinds of crazy things. That's why we should all eat our spinach.
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org nai...@justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 === http://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/capitalism-of-a-special-type--thabo-mbeki ... In 1999, the US Center for Economic and Policy Research published a paper by Robert Naiman and Neil Watkins entitled “A Survey of the Impacts of IMF Structural Adjustment in Africa: Growth, Social Spending, and Debt Relief”. They write: “Structural adjustment programs generally require countries to adopt policies such as: - Reductions in government spending; - Monetary tightening (high interest rates and/or reduced access to credit); - Elimination of government subsidies for food and other items of popular consumption; - Privatization of enterprises previously owned or operated by the government; and - Reductions in barriers to trade, as well as to foreign investment and ownership.” The two questions that arise from these correct comments about economic liberalism, economic neo-liberalism and the IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programmes are: (iii) in what part does the GEAR document advocate the policies listed by Martinez and Garcia under 1 – 5, as well as those identified by Naiman and Watkins; and, (iv) when and in what way did the Government enunciate and implement such policies?
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