Health Effects of Market-Based Reforms in Developing Countries

Germano Mwabu

No wp-1996-120, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Radical and simultaneous economic reforms were implemented in many developing countries, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of these reforms - structural adjustment programmes - were implemented with advice and support from Bretton Woods' institutions. The reforms were intended to strengthen weak economies, and have spawned a large and sharply divided literature as to their distributional and efficiency effects.

Keywords: Balance of payments; Economic development; Structural adjustment (Economic policy); Health; Privatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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