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Research one of the SAPs created by the IMF for a debtor country. How do the restrictions on debt repayment affect the country’s ability to create a social safety net? Does your research match Davis’s conclusions? Why or why not?
What rhetorical devices does Davis use to convince readers of his ideas? How would the book have been different if he had profiled individual residents of slums? Why did Davis opt not to do this?
Davis concentrates on class war because he writes from a Marxist perspective. How does he use the ideas of Marxism in his argument? What does this lens leave out?
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