Women pay the price : structural adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean /

Women pay the price : structural adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean / PRINT edited by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali. - Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1995. - 165 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory perspectives : monetarists, liberals and radicals : contrasting perspectives on gender and structural adjustment / Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali -- Structural adjustment and gender in Guinea Bissau / Rosemary Galli and Ursula Funk -- The impact of structural adjustment on maternal and child health in Nigeria / Folasode Iyun -- Structural adjustment and female wage labor in the Nigerian textile industry / Adebayo and Hussainatu Olukoshi -- Crisis and structural adjustment in Sierra Leone : implications for women / A. Zack-Williams -- Gender and adjustment : pictures from Ghana / Lynne Brydon and Karen Legge -- Engendering the adjustment process in Trinidad and Tobago : perspectives and policy issues / Gwendoline Williams and Ralph Henry -- Guyanese women in action : response and reactions to economic reform / Adeline Apena -- Possibilities for cushioning the adverse effects of the structural adjustment programs on vulnerable women in Zambia / Mosebjane Malatsi -- Economic crisis, structural adjustment and Africa's future / Julius Ihonvbere.

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World Bank--Developing countries--Case studies.
International Monetary Fund--Developing countries--Case studies.


Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Developing countries--Case studies.
Poor women--Developing countries--Case studies.

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