OnlineFirst - "Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance" by Hanna Hilbrandt:

#developmentfinance #Mexico #criticalinsitutionalism #structuraladjustment #municipalgovernance

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251349100

Yesterday, March 24, was the 49th anniversary of the coup that initiated seven years of dictatorship in Argentina, and the Enceuntro Memoria, Verdad y Justicia coalition marked the occasion with a massive demonstration in Buenos Aires and a published statement. The document covers a lot of ground, including an acknowledgement -- and an attack on the Milei government's denial -- of the 30,000 people who were murdered under the dictatorship, as well as demands that the participants in the kidnappings, torture, disappearances, and murder under the dictatorship be held accountable, that the repressive measures of the current regime be brought to an end, that present-day political prisoners be released, and that the IMF and its structural adjustment programs come to an end in Argentina.

If you're able to read it, it's worth taking a look. If I have the time and patience, I'll see about translating it and posting it somewhere. And again, I'd like to point out that, if you're concerned about fascists in power in the present day, particularly in the US, there's a lot to be learned by looking at fascism in the past at home and also by looking at how it has functioned elsewhere, and not just in Germany (though obviously there too).

https://www.scribd.com/document/842677480/Documento-del-Encuentro-Memoria-Verdad-y-Justicia-24-de-Marzo-2025#fullscreen&from_embed

#Argentina #Milei #IMF #StructuralAdjustment #Desaparecidos #fascism #Madres #Encuentro #EMVJ

"Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free."

https://roape.net/2025/02/28/plundering-africa-income-deflation-and-unequal-ecological-exchange-under-structural-adjustment-programmes/

#Africa #PoliticalEconomy #NeoColonialism #Capitalism #Plundering #Deflation #Ecology #StructuralAdjustment

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"So one of the reasons that we’ve seen such a strong focus on ethnic, tribal, denominational, other identities in Iraq, is that when the state collapsed, people had little choice but to find some marker of identity that they thought would have some chance of working for them. And these were the identities that were there."

#NoahFeldman, 2005

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/01/what-we-owe-iraq-interview-noah-feldman/

#Iraq #neoliberalism #StructuralAdjustment

Before calling for the #taxhikes and cutting #fuelsubsidies might it not have been more prudent to have a #safetynet for #Kenyans? But of course not, Ruto is acting at the behest of the #IMF and #bigmoney. 

#StructuralAdjustment #neocolonial #ResourcePredation #IMF #AWesternKleptocracy #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

Impact of market fundamentalism / 'shock therapy' in post-Soviet Eastern Europe: 7 million excess deaths, "an unprecedented mortality crisis". https://academic.oup.com/cje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cje/beac072/7081084?guestAccessKey=01c8dd9f-af1c-48b3-b271-eb5d3a45017c&login=false

#neoliberalism #'shocktherapy #easterneurope #publichealth #structuraladjustment #market_fundamentalism #IMF