Social development in Latin America
Subtitle: issues for public policy
By: Carlos Sojo (editor) ; Mayra Buvinic [and others]
Publisher: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Social problems; Social planning
Notes: First printing, January 2003.

Also available in a Spanish: Desarrollo social en América Latina : temas y desafíos para las políticas públicas.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Introduction. Reinventing the social dimension in Latin America; title: ch. I. Major themes in the social development of Latin America and the Caribbean; title: ch. II. Social indicators: a brief interpretation of their state of development; title: ch. III. Social development and citizenship rights; title: ch. IV. Youth, social development and public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities; title: ch. V. Violence, crime and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean; title: ch. VI. Latin America: civic participation, democratic institutions, good governance, the obstacles and the issues.