Adjustment With a Human Face: Volume I: Protecting the Vulnerable and Promoting Growth

by Frances Stewart (Editor), Giovanni A. Cornia

Following three decades of progress, improvements in the welfare of children and other vulnerable groups worldwide began to falter in the mid-1970s. World recession, and in particular the debt crisis in Latin America and African famine, have seriously affected economic development programs in less developed countries. At the same time, however, large-scale health programs have had a noticeable impact. This study both illustrates the extent of the current crisis and points to the successes to show how welfare policies can--and must--become part of national planning even when the economy is in crisis.

340 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 1987

About the author

Frances Stewart, Professor Emeritus of Development Economics, was Director of ODID from 1993-2003 and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the department between 2003 and 2010. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex

Awards:
- The UNDP’s Mahbub ul Haq award 2009 for lifetime’s achievements in promoting human development
- The Leontief prize 2013;