The view that macroeconomic adjustment disproportionately hurts the poor in Africa has become commonplace. The popular media and the nongovernmental aid community frequently express this view in critiques of bank funded economic reform programs. Yet the evidence on which the claim has been based is flimsy and anecdotal. The emergence of more convincing data, from detailed household surveys in Africa, provides an opportunity to set the record straight...
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1996/02/01
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日志文章
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2013/04/12
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Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in Africa : an emerging picture
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international food policy research institute