Sökning: "structural adjustment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 63 avhandlingar innehållade orden structural adjustment.
1. Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment : An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity
Sammanfattning : Between 1980 and 2000, a number of Sub-Saharan African countries entered into conditional structural adjustment lending arrangements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in response to economic crisis and decline. Despite the fact that the crises had been due in part to long-term overdependence on primary sector activities, such as cash crop agriculture and natural resource extraction, many countries allegedly continued to prioritize these activities during structural adjustment. LÄS MER
2. Structural Violence as a Constraint to African Policy Formation in the 1990s : Respositioning Education in International Relations
Sammanfattning : This study is a meta-analysis of the manner in which global relations impact on national level policy spaces and policy formation. As the International Financial Institutions tighten their grip through the Structural Adjustment Programmes over African countries, and donors steadily shift their ground and push conditionality beyond economic policy into institutional arrangements, the issue of political sovereignty of African countries, and of indirect rule through aid becomes a key concern. LÄS MER
3. Strategies of entrepreneurship : Understanding industrial entrepreneurship and structural change in northwest Tanzania
Sammanfattning : This study addresses the problem of entrepreneurial activity in an environment of institutional change. The focus is on industrial entrepreneurs in northwest Tanzania. Like many other African countries, Tanzania is today undergoing a process of structural transformation. Significant changes are introduced in the formal institutional framework. LÄS MER
4. Strukturomvandling och social utslagning : en analys av sambanden mellan social struktur och social missanpassning och utslagning under perioden 1860-1975
Sammanfattning : Structural changes in society have often been related to social problems such as crime, alcoholism and social elimination. In this analysis of the development of social elimination in Sweden during the period 1860-1975, which is mainly based on official data, it is demonstrated that there is not always a causal relationship between structural change and such social problems. LÄS MER
5. Studies in structural change and labour market adjustment
Sammanfattning : During the seventies growth in the Swedish economy was lower than in the preceding decades. This was particularly true for the manufacturing sector, where the number of employed decreased. At the same time, the public sector expanded, thus avoiding a reduction in the total number of employed. LÄS MER