The impact of economic sanctions on health and well-being / by Richard Garfield.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Series: ; (RRN network paper | ; Relief and Rehabilitation Network ; 31)Publication details: London : Overseas Development Institute, 1999.Description: 34 p. ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 850034353
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • Pamphlet HF 1413.5 .G37 1999
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Cover title.

November 1999.

Includes bibliography—(p. 33-34).

Contents: 1. Executive summary—2. Introduction—3. Country case studies : Cuba, Haiti, Iraq—4. Coping strategies—5. Conclusions—References—Bibliography.

Summary: Trade sanctions, as a tool of coercive foreign policy, have been very popular in the 1990s. most take the form of bilateral sanctions by the US, but the number of UN sanctions has also increased and regional groupings of states are also turning to the tool. Fairly comprehensive trade embargoes have Haiti (Organizations of American States, UN), Iraq (UN), Sierra Leone (ECOWAS, the economic community of West African States) and Burundi (neighbouring states)—(p. 1).