GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conditionality, Invisible Hand, Structural Adjustment
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*slides from tutorial will be uploaded this weekend on blackboard. What is the washington consensus: a political ideology that free trade and specific policies such as privatization, faculty cuts, reduction or management of health care and schools should be promoted. What consequences or benefits could neoliberalism have when it comes to health? (after understanding this context) Also, for example trade many policies came up in terms of the country"s ability to produce, which could limit access to medical centres and production of vaccinations or other factors that could in terms of distance. Ex from the video in last weeks lecture about prices of imported and exported goods in africa (prof. martin talking to his class). In this case government intervention raised the prices preventing locals from purchasing local food and almost forcing them to buy vegetables that were imported from the unites states.
