Structural adjustment: the wrong prescription for Africa?
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Structural adjustment: the wrong prescription for Africa?
The medical and social consequences and the wide effects of the African structural adjustment program (SAP), specifically for women and children, and examples of the impact in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Senegal, are discussed. Structural adjustment is defined and the history of its inception is provided. Significant economic and social welfare improvement occurred during the 1960s and 1970s, and c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.307.6895.41