Structural Adjustment, Poverty Analysis and the Safety Nets Paradigm

Arjan Haan
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Arjan Haan: UK Department for International Development

Chapter 5 in Reclaiming Social Policy, 2007, pp 112-133 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The period after the Second World War and the end of colonialism was one of great optimism, of reconstruction in Europe, possibilities for economic independence and realization of political independence in the South, together with pro-active social policies, the rise of the welfare state in Europe and socialist policies or mixed-economy models in many post-colonial countries. The economic downturn of the 1960s and 1970s changed dominant attitudes towards state intervention and social policies, shifting the emphasis to market functioning and structural adjustment, while goals of redistribution and the instruments of an interventionist state lost popularity. Since the 1990s, following the emphasis on the ‘human face of adjustment’, and international civil society pressure on the international financial institutions, reducing poverty has become accepted as the central goal of international development efforts.

Keywords: Social Protection; Structural Adjustment; Cash Transfer; Income Poverty; World Development Report (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592285_5

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