| Description |
1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- A Thousand Cuts -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. 40 Years of Structural Adjustment -- 2. The Evolution of IMF Conditionality -- 3. How to Evaluate the Effects of IMF Conditionality -- Part II. Social Protection and Structural Adjustment -- 4. Conditionality and Health Policy -- 5. Conditionality and Income Inequality -- 6. Conditionality and Health Outcomes -- Part III. Looking Forward -- 7. The IMF and the COVID-19 Response -- 8. The Future of IMF Lending: A Better Way? -- Appendix: A New Dataset on Conditionality, 1980-2019 |
| Summary |
The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity--a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. In A Thousand Cuts, Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs examine the activities of the world's leading advocate of austerity: the International Monetary Fund. As one of the first systematic assessments of the impact of austerity on people's lives around the world, A Thousand Cuts makes an important contribution to the continuing debate on how to foster social protection in light of economic crises and IMF-man |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Index |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stubbs, Thomas
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| ISBN |
9780190637750 |
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0190637757 |
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