IMF & World Bank Programs Claim Human Lives: Research
17:40 01.04.2026 (Updated: 17:58 01.04.2026)
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IMF & World Bank Programs Claim Human Lives: Research
Structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s–1990s inflicted widespread, measurable harm on human welfare across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, according to a paper published in the medical journal BMJ Global Health.
The paper listed the following implications of SAPs:
🟠Declining real wages and working-class consumption;
🟠Increased rates of poverty and basic-needs deprivation;
🟠Increased neonatal and maternal mortality;
🟠Reduced health system access;
🟠Increased financial outflows and drain from the global South through unequal exchange.
"Kenya suffered 305,000 excess infant deaths between 1986 and 2010, compared with the pre-SAP mortality trend," the paper noted as an example.
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Structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s–1990s inflicted widespread, measurable harm on human welfare across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, according to a paper published in the medical journal BMJ Global Health.
The paper listed the following implications of SAPs:
🟠Declining real wages and working-class consumption;
🟠Increased rates of poverty and basic-needs deprivation;
🟠Increased neonatal and maternal mortality;
🟠Reduced health system access;
🟠Increased financial outflows and drain from the global South through unequal exchange.
"Kenya suffered 305,000 excess infant deaths between 1986 and 2010, compared with the pre-SAP mortality trend," the paper noted as an example.
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