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Author Lundy, Patricia, author.

Title Debt and adjustment : social and environmental consequences in Jamaica / Patricia Lundy
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge revivals
Studies in green research
Routledge revivals.
Studies in green research.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Crisis, debt and adjustment; 2 Social consequences of structural adjustment; 3 Alternative methodology in the study of adjustment; 4 Does adjustment harm the environment?; 5 Social action, the environment and adjustment; 6 Summary and conclusions; Bibliography
Summary This text is based on original research carried out during 13 months fieldwork in Jamaica. The first key theme is an examination of the damage to the social environment and ecology of the island, which has resulted from IMF/World Bank prescribed structural adjustment policies. The second is the identification of a social movement in Jamaica of community environmental groups, some based in ultra-poor squatter communities. The study presents data and case studies which are characteristic of many "third world" countries, and links Jamaica's heavy external indebtedness to its deteriorating social environment and ecology
Notes Originally published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 27, 2018)
Subject Debts, External -- Jamaica
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Jamaica
Environmental economics -- Jamaica
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Debts, External
Economic history
Environmental economics
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Economic conditions
Subject Jamaica
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429463792
0429463790