Social Development in Latin America: The Politics of Reform
  • 2000/269 pages
  • Woodrow Wilson Center Current Studies on Latin America

Social Development in Latin America:

The Politics of Reform

Joseph S. Tulchin and Allison M. Garland, editors
Paperback: $22.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-843-6
While previous analyses of public-sector reform efforts in Latin America have focused largely on strategies to redefine the role of the state in the economy, there is a growing realization that social reform—addressing such issues as poverty, inequality, and unemployment—is a condition on which economic and political stability rest. This volume provides a wide-ranging analysis of social- welfare reform in the region, examining in particular the politics involved in implementing difficult and controversial social policies that often pit the middle strata of society, represented by powerful stakeholders, against the poor.

Joseph S. Tulchin is former director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Allison M. Garland is program associate at the Latin American Program.