Sentences with phrase «economic shock therapy»

And then how they are shocked again — by corporations and politicians who exploit the fear and disorientation of this first shock to push through economic shock therapy.

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Yeltsin also turned Russia inwards to manage the economic and social cataclysm of «shock therapy», which facilitated the emergence of an oligarch - led kleptocracy.

The play is set in 1974, when the UK faced economic crisis and a hung parliament: «This country is being kept alive on aspirin when what it needs is electric shock therapy.»

The peripheral and semiperipheral states in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, under the pressure of the leading capitalist states (primarily the United States) and international monetary institutions (IMF and the World Bank), have adopted «structural adjustments,» «shock therapies,» or «economic reforms,» to restructure their economies in accordance with the requirements of neoliberal economics more...