Structural Adjustment Policies, Income Distribution and Poverty: A Review of the Jamaican Experience

World Development

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 915-930

  Handa, Sudhanshu ^a   King, Damien ^b  

^a EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Inequality; Jamaica; Poverty; Structural adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000484692     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00005-3     Document Type: Article

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