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23 March, 2006

Adjustment with a Human Face

This study draws on 10 country case studies and UNICEF experience to illustrate the severity of the debt crisis and point to ways to avoid or alleviate the ill-effects of economic adjustment on vulnerable groups. It highlights some successes in protecting vulnerable populations during adjustment, with policies that have generated employment, raised the incomes of the poor and maintained and even expanded basic health and education services, and supported nutrition among children. Underscores that policies to protect the vulnerable can and must become part of national planning even when the economy is in difficulties. The strategy of ‘Adjustment with a Human Face’ combines the promotion of economic growth, protection of the vulnerable and macro-economic adjustment.

Author: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Richard Jolly, Frances Stewart
Price: £16.99
No. of pages: 340
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Languages: English
ISBN: 0-19-828610-4. You can purchase this publication at your bookstore or any online bookseller.
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_4265.html