Structural adjustment and poverty in Nicaragua Geske Dijkstra Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Erasmus University Rotterdam Department of Public Administration Faculty of Social Sciences Erasmus University Rotterdam P.O.Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands dijkstra@fsw.eur.nl Paper prepared for delivery at the 2000 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami, March 16-18, 2000 Draft The second part of this paper is based on work done for the Swedish International Agency for Development (Sida), and reported as chapter 6 in Geske Dijkstra (1999) Debt, dependence and fragile development, Programme aid to Nicaragua. Sida Evaluation Report 1999/17: 4, Stockholm. This report is also available from the Sida website: www.sida.se/programaidevaluation