Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform

by Kerry Rittich

In the last decade, market-centered economic reforms have been implemented in a wide range of developing and transitional countries under the auspices of the international financial institutions. Whether or not they deliver the promised prosperity, they appear to be associated with widening economic inequality as well as disadvantage for particular social groups, among them women and workers. Recharacterizing Restructuring argues that such effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9041119353
• ISBN13: 9789041119353
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Brill - Nijhoff
• Length: 336 Pages