SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Naomi Klein, Structural Adjustment, Culture Jamming
12 Nov 2017
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Bottom-up globalization - globalization has created inequalities that need to be addressed. Anti-globalization: alternative globalization, global social justice movement, more democracy, greater equality, economic and environmental sustainability, critique of american hegemony. Anti neoliberal economic policy : main criticism, structural adjustment policies. Structural adjustment policies are a set of policies that, if a country wants to borrow money from the world bank, they must do things in return. So, this policy forces the countries borrowing money to cut their government spending ex. Health care, education, anything that helps the poor, etc. This policy is in place to ensure that these countries can repay the money they"re borrowing. Structural adjustment policies in jamaica: life and debt: structural adjustment policies and. Jamaican government needed to borrow money to help the people in need for necessities such as food. But, when borrowing this money to help, social services needed to be cut. The poverty in jamaica traces back to the structural adjustment policies.
