Social Forces and States : Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico.
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high level...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford University Press,
2012
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels of criminal and political violence. On the road to development, states cannot but grapple with the challenges posed by poverty and wealth distribution. Social Forces and States explains the reasons behind distinct distributional and poverty outcomes in three countries: South Korea, Chile, and Mexic. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780804782548 0804782547 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
