Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State in the Making? (Social Policy in a Development Context)

A Wealth Of Country-level Socioeconomic Data And Individual Historical Trajectories Come Together In This Volume To Show Us A Region Where A Novel Development Strategy May Be In The Making. Emerging From The Developmentalism And Neoliberalism Experiences Of The Last Century, The Twenty-first Century Latin American Developmental Welfare State Model Is Based On A New Public-private Alliance, Where State-led Developmental Social Policy Relies For Its Implementation Mainly On Proactive, Emerging, Regional Entrepreneurs And A Growing Middle Class. These Groups, Together With A Renewed Public Sector, Seem Poised To Lead The Development Prospects Of The Region And Its Peoples In The New Century. Introduction / S.m. Draibe And M. Riesco -- Part I: Latin America, Modernizing On The Threshold Of The 21st Century -- Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State Model In The Making? / S.m. Draibe And M. Riesco -- Part Ii: In The Highlands Of Ancient American Empires -- Mexico's Welfare State: Birth, Growth And Retrenchment (1822-2002) / V. Brachet-m̀arquez -- Social Policy In A Development Context: The Case Of Peru / F. Sagasti, F. Prada And M. Baz̀n -- Part Iii: In The Rich Shores Of Late Immigrants -- Social Policy And Economic Regime In Argentina: Crisis And Retrenchment Of Social Protection / A.c. Barbeito And L. Goldberg -- Uruguay's Social And Economic Challenges And Its Policy Responses / M. Bonino, H-j. Kwon And A. Peyre Dutrey -- Part Iv: In The Imperial Immensities, And The Revolutionary Island, Of Former American Slavery -- The Brazilian Developmental Welfare State: Rise, Decline And Perspectives / S.m. Draibe -- Social Policies In Cuba Within The Context Of Development (1902-2002) / J.a.d̕iaz V̀azquez And J. Carranza Valdes -- Part V: In The Meagre Fringes Of Early American Settlers -- Social Policy And Social Reform 'costa Rican Style': A Paradigmatic Case Of Heterodoxy In The Context Of A Peripheral Economy / M. Barahona, L. Güendell And C. Castro Valverde -- Developmental Welfare State And Social Change In Chile / M.a. Illanes And M. Riesco. Edited By Manuel Riesco. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.