> Three or four years ago I posed the question on Pen-L as to how many
> people the IMF had slaughtered. One person (I forget who) did a fairly
> careful calculation and came up with the tentative figure (if I remember
> correctly) of 22 million (I think in a 20 year period).
This is probably a drastic underestimate. It would be at least 20 million in, say, Latin America alone (due to higher infant mortality and higher death rates). Falling male life expectancies in Russia alone accounted for 7 to 8 million deaths over a 15-year period. My guess is, structural adjustment cost the lives of somewhere between 75 and 100 million human beings.
But let's not be too gloomy. Neoliberalism has been smashed to nanometrical pieces throughout huge chunks of the global periphery, and feisty developmental states are emerging everywhere from Moscow to Caracas. Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living!
-- DRR