Welfare, Poverty and Development in Latin America

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; C.Abel & C.M.Lewis - Evolution of Aggregate Welfare and Development Indicators in Latin America and the OECD, 1950-1985; J-M.A.Bertrand - Determinants of Social Insurance/Security Costs and Coverage; C.Mesa-Lago, M.A.Cruz-Saco & L.Zamalloa - Urban Wages and Welfare; I.Roxborough - Self-help Housing during Recession; A.Gilbert - Growth, Distribution and Basic Needs in Peru and Columbia; R.Thorp - Bonos, Beneficios y Bienestar; A Study of Wages, Work and Welfare on Peruvian Sugar Plantations; C.D.Scott - Social Insurance: Ideology and Policy in the Argentine, c. 1920-1960; C.M.Lewis - Welfare, Oil Workers and the Labour Movement in Venezuela; S.Ellner - Utopia in Uruguay Redefined: Social Welfare Policy after 1940; H.Finch - Education and Training in Colombia, 1940s to 1960; A.Helg - Puerto Rico: A Model of Welfare Capitalism, C. 1945-1970; C.Abel - Social Equality, Agrarian Transition and Development in Cuba, 1945-1990; J.Stubbs - Social Security in Haiti: Informal Initiatives in a Welfare-less State; M.Lundahl - Market Modernization Policy in Bogota: Welfare Consequences for Low-Income Market Sellers; C.O.N.Moser - Politics, Equity and Social Security Politics in Brazil; J.M.Malloy & C.A.Parodi - Welfare in Nicaragua: The Somocista and Sandinista Experiences Compared; P.Sollis - The Campaign Against Absolute Poverty in Colombia: An Evaluation of Liberal Social Policy; A.Puyana - Mobilization and the Quest for Recognition: The Struggle of Rural Women in Southern Brazil for Access to Welfare Benefits; A.Brumer - Non-Governmental Organizations and Development in Brazil under Dictatorship and Democracy; A.Hall - Chilean Education Policy: Authoritarianism and Democracy; A.J.Weitzman - Index