"The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism" explores the history of and
current collision between two of the major global phenomena that
have characterized the last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and
other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of neoliberal economic
ideas. The book explains not only how IMF policies of restrictive
spending have exacerbated public health problems in developing
countries, in particular the HIV/AIDS crisis, but also how such
issues cannot be resolved under these economic policies. It also
suggests how mounting global frustration about this inability to
adequately address HIV/AIDS will ultimately lead to challenges to
the dominant neoliberal ideas, as other more effective economic
ideas for increasing public spending are sought.
In stark, powerful terms, Rowden offers a unique and in-depth
critique of development economics, the political economy dynamics
of global foreign aid and health institutions, and how these
seemingly abstract factors play out in the real world - from the
highest levels of global institutions to African finance and health
ministries to rural health outposts in the countryside of
developing nations, and back again.
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