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Free Markets and Food Riots [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Global Adjustment



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Autore: Walton John K Visualizza persona
Titolo: Free Markets and Food Riots [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Global Adjustment Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
Disciplina: 303.4
339.5/09172/4
Soggetto topico: Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - 1971-1990 - Developing countries
Free trade - 1990- - Developing countries
Social conflict - Developing countries
Capitalism - Developing countries
Post-communism - Europe, Eastern
Economic history
Business & Economics
Economic History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: SeddonDavid  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Free Markets & Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Global Adjustment; 2 Food Riots Past and Present; Part II Case Studies; 3 Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programs; 4 Latin America: Popular Protest and the State; 5 Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa; 6 The Middle East and North Africa; 7 The Asian Debt Crisis: Structural Adjustment and Popular Protest in India; 8 Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the "Open Economy"
9 The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern EuropePart III Conclusion; 10 Debt Crisis and Democratic Transition; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic ""reform"" and ""adjustment"". Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970sArgues that modern austerity protests, like the class
Titolo autorizzato: Free Markets and Food Riots  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-84075-0
9786611840754
0-470-71296-1
0-470-71271-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910144128303321
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