Adjustment with a Human Face: Volume I: Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

Adjustment with a Human Face: Volume I: Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. World recession, and in particular the debt crisis in Latin America and African famine, have seriously affected economic development programs in less developed countries. At the same time, however, large-scale health programs have had a noticeable impact. This study both illustrates the extent of the current crisis and points to the successes to show how welfare policies can--and must--become part of national planning even when the economy is in crisis. "An important volume."-- Journal of Developing Areas "This is an important book, the fruit of several years' efforts by a large team of social scientists."-- Finance & Development "Has deservedly found a central place in the current debate about international development....Should have a profound effect on social policy making."-- International Perspectives "An important contribution."-- Orbis Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Richard Jolly are both at UNICEF. Frances Stewart is a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.