Contents

Studies in Urban and Social Change

Published by Blackwell in association with the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Series editors: Chris Pickvance, Margit Mayer and John Walton

Published

Divided Cities

Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe (eds.)

The City Builders

Susan S. Fainstein

Fragmented Societies

Enzo Mingionc

Free Markets and Food Riots

John Walton and David Seddon

Forthcoming

Post-Fordism

Ash Amin (ed.)

The Resources of Poverty

Mercedes González de la Rocha

Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

Michael Harloe

Cities after Socialism

Michael Harloe, Ivan Szelenyi and Gregory Andrusz

Urban Social Movements and the State Margit Mayer

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Walton, John, 1937-

Free markets and food riots: the politics of global adjustment /

John Walton and David Seddon, with contributions by Victoria Daines,, [et al.|.

p. cm. ■ (Studies in urban and social change) Includes bibliographical references arid index. ISBN 0–631 -18245-4. - ISBN 0-631-.1 «247-0 (pbk.)

1. Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Developing countries, 2. Developing countries - Economic conditions. 3, Free trade - Developing countries.

4. Social conflict - Developing countries. 5. Capitalism Developing countries.

6. Posl-communism - Europe, Eastern. 7. Economic history - 1971–1990.

8. Economic history - 1990- I. Seddon, David. II. Daines, Victoria, III. Title.

IV. Series,

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Tables

Table		Regional patterns of growth, 1965–2000
Table		Socio-economic indicators for major Latin American countries (ca. 1970–1990)
Table		Correlations of the occurrence and severity of austerity protest with selected indicators of economic, social, and political conditions in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s
Table		Fiscal contraction and social spending in sub-Saharan Africa
Table		Austerity protest in the Middle East, 1965–1992
Table		External public debt in selected Middle Eastern countries
Table		Annual GDP growth rate for selected countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1960–1990
Table		Regional debt indicators and debt-service payments, 1981–1991
Table		Debt indicators for selected countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, total debt service to export of goods and services, 1980–1989 Table
Table		Development and growth: Indicators for South Asian nations and China, late 1970s
Table		Governmental priorities in spending (percentage of total central-government expenditures), 1976

Acknowledgements

Although John Walton and David Seddon are the principal authors and editors of this volume, its contents and conception rely on additional contributors. Victoria Daines coauthorcd with David Seddon chapter 3 on women’s responses to austerity. Ronald Herring wrote chapter 8 on Sri Lanka’s cxceptionalism. Trevor Parfitt and Stephen Riley contributed chapter 5 on Africa. Jonathan Shefner coauthored with John Walton chapter 4 on Latin America. Mridula Udayagiri wrote chaptcr 7 on India. John Walton is grateful to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC for a fellowship that supported work on this project.

Part I

Introduction