tragen wurde und wird (ebd. ). Scholte (2000: 214) fasst einige der Auswirkungen dieser Politik anschaulich zusammen: "The World Bank has estimated that the num ber of people living on less than the equivalent of one dollar per day rose from 1. 2 billion in 1987 to 1. 5 billion in 1997. During the 1980s, 37 of the world's poorest countries experienced cuts in health budgets. As of the mid-1990s, around a seventh of the world's population was chronically malnourished . . . 70 countries experienced no increase in per capita income between 1980 and the mid-1990s, and 43 countries had a lower per...