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The Fiscal System, Adjustment and the Poor

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  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia
  • Frances Stewart

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It is now widely accepted that in many countries the poor suffered additional deprivation during the stabilization and adjustment that took place in the 1980s (Cornia et al. 1987, passim; Helleiner 1985, Addison and Demery 1985, World Bank 1989a). Downward pressure on the conditions of living of poor groups arose from three sources: reductions in real incomes from employment, as employment levels fell and real wages declined; rapid rises in the prices of the goods the poor consume, especially food, following devaluation, increased producer prices for food and the reduction or removal of subsidies; and cuts in government provided services — health, education and economic services — to which the poor had access.
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  • Giovanni Andrea Cornia & Frances Stewart, 1990. "The Fiscal System, Adjustment and the Poor," Papers iopeps90/64, Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic Policy Series.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucf:iopeps:iopeps90/64
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    1. Tony Killick, 1995. "Structural Adjustment and Poverty Alleviation: An Interpretative Survey," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 26(2), pages 305-330, April.

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    Keywords

    adjustment policies; economic development; poverty;
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    JEL classification:

    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa

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