Poverty and Inequality During Structural Adjustment in Rural Tanzania
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Poverty and Inequality Growth attributed to structural adjustment has During Structural benefited the population Adj.ustment in Rural generally, shifting a significairportion of the populatior Tanzania from below the poverty line to above it. Only that smanller fraction of the population M. Luisa Ferreira with extremely low incomes was unable to benefit fron the economy's impr-oved performance probably because the liberalization process that encouraged growth rewarded those wvith education, excluding from benefits those with little education.
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