Strategies to combat poverty in Latin America
By: Dagmar Raczynski, editor.
Contributors: Raczynski, Dagmar.; Inter-American Development Bank.; Centers for Research in Applied Economics.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank; distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Poverty -- Latin America.; Economic assistance, Domestic -- Latin America.; Latin America -- Social policy.; Latin America -- Economic policy.
Description: "Provides individual case studies of poverty programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Costa Rica. Documents shift in anti-poverty strategies from 'universal' programs, such as general subsidies and price controls, to targeted programs where government spending is channeled to poorest sectors"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index.
"Centers for Research in Applied Economics"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Strategies to combat poverty in Latin America / Dagmar Raczynski; title: Devising new approaches to poverty in Argentina / Roberto Martínez Nogueira; title: Involving civil society, Brazil / Sonia Miriam Draibe and Marta Teresa S. Arretche; title: Costa Rica, the state's response to poverty / Juan Diego Trejos; title: Programs, institutions and resources, Chile / Dagmar Raczynski; title: Index.