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| Citation | Kitajima, Chika. “The Social Impacts of Structural Adjustment Programmes on Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Regional Development Studies 4 (1998): 119-134. | ||
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| Year | 1998 | ||
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| Material Type | Journal Article | ||
| Features | 65 notes | ||
| Pages | p. 119-134 | ||
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AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA 01.04.02 AGRICULTURE 07.01.01 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 03.02.03 ECONOMIC THEORY 03.01.02 FORMAL SECTOR 03.03.02 HOUSEHOLD 14.04.01 INFORMAL SECTOR 08.02.02 LABOUR MARKET 13.01.02 STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT 03.02.01 WOMEN 14.02.03 | ||
| Abstract | Structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), having been imposed during the 1980s upon developing countries suffering from massive debt, have had enormous effects. The experiences of these countries have differed widely, depending on the economic conditions during the pre-adjustment period, their current economic structures, and other social, cultural, and political factors. However, social impacts resulting from SAPs have appeared relatively uniform in terms of the negative influences on the low-income segments of the population. In particular, women have been affected more severely than their male counterparts because existing cultural, political, and economic biases against women were generally ignored during the design state of each SAP. The World Bank, one of the advocates of SAPs, recently admitted that women were the "new poor", having been adversely affected by the implementation of SAPs. This article's focus will be on the relative and absolute decline in the status and conditions of women in countries which have adopted SAPs through empirical studies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the adjustment policies have produced negative social impacts. Additional focus will be on the theoretical underpinning of SAPs -- neoclassical economic theory -- which has consistently lacked gender considerations. --Journal abstract | ||
| Control No. | RDS 04f | ||