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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 4, PP. 547550 Book Review Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa Sahn, Dorosh and Younger Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about the impact of structural adjustment policies on the poor in Africa. The debate about the African Growth and Opportunity Act in the USA this spring, hinging on whether or not trade liberalisation would provide benefits for African workers, was joined by the Labour Unions, opinion columnists and editorial writers.1 Protagonists and antagonists cited numerous anecdotes, `before and after' analyses of policies and the occasional cross-country regression. All sides would have done well by reading Structural Adjustment Reconsidered by Sahn et al. The authors of this excellent volume cut through the rhetoric, anecdotes and cursory impact studies associated with analyses of structural adjustment, using detailed survey evidence to try to answer the many questions which surround this issue. While some of the particular conclusions are appropriately tentative, the overall evidence is clear: in the ten countries studied, there is little or no evidence that the poor suffered disproportionately from structural adjustment policies. This study differs from most other attempts to measure the impact of adjustment in four
Journal of African Economies – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 2000
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