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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2012
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Table of Contents:
- Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1. Social Forces and History: Explaining Divergent Poverty and Distributional Outcomes; 2. South Korea: The Historical Origins of Equitable Growth; 3. Chile: The Historical Origins of Inequality; 4. Mexico: The Historical Origins of Povertyand Inequality; 5. Social Forces, States, and Distributive Outcomes; 6. The 1980s and 1990s: Economic and SocialOutcomes Diverge; 7. Social Conditions and Welfare Regimes in the Twenty-First Century; 8. Conclusions; Reference Matter; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.
