Crisis, Adjustment and the Dynamics of Gender Relations in Central America and the Caribbean

A. Geske Dijkstra

Chapter 6 in Towards Sustainable Development in Central America and the Caribbean, 2001, pp 114-139 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For most countries of the region, the 1990s were a period of macroeconomic recovery after the ‘lost decade’ of the 1980s. These countries went through a period of macroeconomic crisis in the early 1980s, attempted to solve the crisis first by increased borrowing and then, at some point in time, began to ‘adjust’. This implied that austerity measures were taken aimed at stabilization of the economy. Most countries also embarked on economic reforms, but this occurred towards the end of the 1980s or in the beginning of the 1990s.1 The results of stabilization and adjustment programmes are mixed. In some countries, growth rates were still negative in the early 1990s, while in others the macroeconomic situation had already improved in the second half of the 1980s. This chapter examines the impact of crisis and adjustment on gender relations. Eventually, stabilization and structural adjustment are expected to lead to economic growth in all countries. The sustainability of that growth depends partly on what happens to gender relations in the region.

Keywords: Labour Market; Gender Equality; Informal Sector; Gender Inequality; Dominican Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230502123_6

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