A Thousand Cuts : Social Protection in the Age of Austerity Alexandros Kentikelenis

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190637730
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190637736
• Author: Alexandros Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs

The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity–a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been the world’s lender of last resort and leading advocate of austerity, and has been consistently chastised by policymakers and civil society for the consequences of its economic policy reforms on social protection. Critics of the IMF have identified so-called structural adjustment programs as a key cause of global increases in poverty, widespread disease, and unemployment. In the face of such criticisms, the IMF has advanced a narrative of wholesale reform to its practices.

In A Thousand Cuts, Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs provide a systematic and comprehensive analysis of IMF policies around the world. Based on novel data from the IMF archives, Kentikelenis and Stubbs have generated a replicable database of all IMF-mandated reforms from 1980-2019 to examine their effects on social policies and outcomes. They reveal that although the precise content of IMF-mandated austerity has changed considerably over time, the organization continues to place a high burden of reform on countries in crisis. These reforms then decrease the availability of important social services and contribute to rises in income inequality and decline in population health.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. 40 Years of Structural Adjustment
2. The Evolution of IMF Conditionality
3. How to Evaluate the Effects of IMF Conditionality
Part II. Social Protection and Structural Adjustment
4. Conditionality and Health Policy
5. Conditionality and Income Inequality
6. Conditionality and Health Outcomes
Part III. Looking Forward
7. The IMF and the COVID-19 Response
8. The Future of IMF Lending: A Better Way?
Appendix: A New Dataset on Conditionality, 1980–2019
References
Index

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