Why Do Critics Refer to Structural Adjustment as "Shock Therapy

question 28

Multiple Choice

Why do critics refer to structural adjustment as "shock therapy?

• A) Because of the sudden bottom-up nature of coups
• B) Because the IMF severely reduces social supports to supposedly develop a free market in poor countries
• C) Because of the role that electricity plays in developing poor nations
• D) All of the above

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