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Scheming for the poor : the politics of redistribution in Latin America / William Ascher.
LIBRA HC195.I5 A73 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ascher, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--Government policy--Chile.
- Income distribution.
- Income distribution--Government policy--Argentina.
- Income distribution--Government policy--Peru.
- Income distribution--Government policy.
- Peru.
- Argentina.
- Chile.
- Physical Description:
- 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- 'Scheming for the Poor' is the first comparative analysis of redistributive policymaking in Latin American. Ascher examines the success or failure of progressive policies launched by nine governments grouped into three regime types-populist, reformist, and radical-over the course of the postwar history of Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 329-338.
- ISBN:
- 0674790855
- OCLC:
- 9785283
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