About the author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One | Emergence of HIV/AIDS and the Global Response

Introduction

1 | The History of Global Funding to Fight HIV/AIDS

2 | The Impact of the AIDS Response on Public Health Systems

3 | The Shortage of Healthcare Workers and the ‘Brain Drain’ Problem

The ‘brain drain’ problem

4 | The Debate over ‘Vertical’ versus ‘Horizontal’ Donor Aid

5 | Different Types of Health Systems, Different Types of Financing

Hitting a wall: why can’t public health finance be increased?

Part Two | The Neoliberal Development Model

Introduction

6 | The Reagan Revolution, Structural Adjustment and The Washington Consensus

Origins of the IMF and the World Bank: the Bretton Woods conference of 1944

1950 to 1980: decolonization

The 1980s: the Reagan Revolution and neoliberalism

The debt crisis, structural adjustment programmes and the Washington Consensus policies

7 | Neoliberal Theory and its Policies

8 | The Consequences for Development

Monetarism and its consequences

Financial liberalization and its consequences

Central bank independence (CBI)

Anti-deficit radicalism and its consequences

Trade liberalization and its consequences

Labour flexibility and its consequences

Consequences for agriculture and food security

The consequences for development

Part Three | Consequences for Health

Introduction

9 | The Demise of Public Health and the Rise of Neoliberalism

10 | The Consequences for Health

11 | Thirty Years Later: Coming Full Circle – Rediscovering Public Health

12 | The IMF: Blocking Progress on Public Health

The IMF’s wage-bill ceilings

Health repression

Conclusion: What is Development?

Bibliography

Index