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Children are amongst those who have been structurally adjusted. The losers were clear. They were seen in the increased numbers of homeless and mentally ill searching routinely through the garbage containers, they were absorbed among the numbers of youth recruited into criminal posses, they were included among the fixed income pensioners whose private poverty could not be relieved by food stamps, and they were numbered among those who stood grimly in visa lines. (Anderson & Witter, 1991)
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Williams, S. (2004). The Effects of Structural Adjustment Programs on the Lives of Children in Jamaica. In: Globalization and Children. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47925-7_12
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