Title: Poverty, Equality, and Growth
First published: 1999
Description: In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to account for why political actors succeeded in crafting a program that won acceptance, it is necessary to look beyond their interests and to identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments.
Subjects: Domestic Economic assistance, Economic assistance, Domestic, Economic conditions, Income distribution, Poverty, Egalite, Economische ontwikkeling, Politique sociale, Pauvrete, Aide au developpement economique regional, Inkomensverdeling, Armoede, Economic history, Japan, economic conditions, Japan, history, allied occupation, 1945-1952
Places: Japan
Time periods: 1945-
LC classification: HC465.P6 M55 1999