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Trade liberalization, deindustrialization, and inequality: evidence from Middle-Income Latin American Countries
(Latin American Studies Association, 2013)
This article explores the relationship among trade liberalization, deindustrialization, and income inequality in the more industrially advanced Latin American countries. It argues that, among the most important liberal ...
Latin America
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
This chapter is organized into three sections. The first discusses the origins and development of Latin American welfare states before moving on to outline more recent reforms of social policy regimes in the area. A second ...
State capacity and social investment: explaining variation in skills creation reforms in Latin America
(2020)
Latin America has been historically characterized by a focus on compensatory social policies, state capacity problems and unstable political coalitions impairing political and policy sustainability. In the 1980s-90s ...
Preferences for redistribution and tax burdens in Latin America
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Diverse studies of the political economy of tax composition across middleincome countries have found that Latin American economies tax upperincome groups much less than do other developing regions, such as East Asia and ...