In the 1980’s, adjustment programs required countries to cut back on their expenditures, including outlays on education, health, water, agriculture, and other sectors that make a difference to poor households. As the late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere demanded publicly: “Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”
20世纪80年代，调整计划也曾迫使国家削减教育、医疗、供水、农业及其他领域等改变贫困家庭生存状况的公共开支。 正如已故坦桑尼亚总统朱利叶斯·尼雷尔当众提出的那样： “我们是不是必须为了还债而饿死我们的孩子？”