Title Women pay the price : structural adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean / edited by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali

Published Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, [1995] ©1995

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Description 165 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Introductory Perspectives: Monetarists, Liberals and Radicals: Contrasting Perspectives on Gender and Structural Adjustment / Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali -- 2. Structural Adjustment and Gender in Guinea Bissau / Rosemary Galli and Ursula Funk -- 3. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Maternal and Child Health in Nigeria / Folasode Iyun -- 4. Structural Adjustment and Female Wage Labor in the Nigerian Textile Industry / Adebayo Olukoshi and Hussainatu Olukoshi -- 5. Crisis and Structural Adjustment in Sierra Leone: Implications for Women / A. Zack-Williams -- 6. Gender and Adjustment: Pictures from Ghana / Lynne Brydon and Karen Legge -- 7. Engendering the Adjustment Process in Trinidad and Tobago: Perspectives and Policy Issues / Gwendoline Williams and Ralph Henry -- 8. Guyanese Women in Action: Response and Reactions to Economic Reform / Adeline Apena 9. Possibilities for Cushioning the Adverse Effects of the Structural Adjustment Programs on Vulnerable Women in Zambia / Mosebjane Malatsi -- 10. Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and Africa's Future / Julius Ihonvbere Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject International Monetary Fund -- Developing countries -- Case studies. World Bank -- Developing countries -- Case studies. Poor women -- Developing countries -- Case studies. Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries -- Case studies. Author Emeagwali, Gloria T. LC no. 94040497 ISBN 086543428X 0865434298 (paperback)

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