Free Markets and Food Riots
The Politics of Global Adjustment
Published on 15. August 1994
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-631-18245-0 (ISBN)
Description
Over almost two decades, mounting Third World debt and global economic restructuring have produced a phenomenon unique in world history: the austerity protests - or "IMF riots" - which have arisen in cities from the Middle East to Latin America in response to the deprivations of austerity policies. "Free Markets and Food Riots" traces the rise of this phenomenon against the broad background of the Third World debt crises and assesses the consequences of protest.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-18245-0 (9780631182450)
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09/2008
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Content
1. Food Riots Past and Present 2. Fighting for Survival: Women's Responses to Austerity Programmes 3. Latin America: Popular Protest and the State 4. Economic Adjustment and Democratization in Africa 5. The Middle East and North Africa 6. India and the Asian Experience 7. Explaining Sri Lanka's Exceptionalism: Popular Responses to Welfarism and the "Open Economy" 8. The Politics of Economic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe 9. Conclusion: Austerity and Democratization.