Free markets & food riots : the politics of global adjustment /
Free markets and food riots
by John Walton and David Seddon
- vi, 387 pages ; 24 cm
- Studies in urban and social change .
- Studies in urban and social change .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-365) and index
Global adjustments -- Food riots past and present -- Fighting for survival: women's responses to austerity programs -- Latin America: popular protest and the state -- Economic adjustment and democratization in Africa -- The Middle East and North Africa -- The Asian debt crisis: structural adjustments and popular protest in India -- Explaining Sri Lanka's exceptionalism: popular responses to welfarism and the "open economy" -- The politics of economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe -- Debt crisis and democratic transition
With contributions by Victoria Daines [and others] With contributions by Victoria Daines [and others]
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Developing countries Free trade--Developing countries Social conflict--Developing countries Capitalism--Developing countries Post-communism--Europe, Eastern Economic history--1971-1990 Economic history--1990- Social sciences