The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social policy relies for its implementation mainly on proactive, emerging regional entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. This volume illustrates where innovative development strategy may be in the making.

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MANUEL BARAHONA Professor, School of Economics, National University, Costa Rica ALBERTO C. BARBEITO Economist and Lead Researcher, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (CIEPP), Argentina MARIO FRANCISCO BAZÁN BORJA Economist, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru MARÍA BONINO Sociologist and Associate Researcher, Centro de Investigación Económica y Social del Uruguay (CIEDUR), Uruguay VIVIANE BRACHET-MÁRQUEZ Professor of Sociology, El Colegio de México, Mexico JULIO CARRANZA VALDES Programme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Office for the Caribbean, Jamaica CARLOS CASTRO VALVERDE Institute of Social Research, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica JULIO A. DIAZ VAZQUEZ Researcher, Professor and President, Scientific Board, Centro de Investigación de Economia Internacional, University of Havana, Cuba SONIA M. DRAIBE Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, State University of Campinas, Brazil LAURA GOLDBERG Member, Research Team, Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (CIEPP), Argentina LUDWIG GÜENDELL Director, Centro de Estúdios para la Acción Social (CEPAS), Costa Rica MARIO ANGÉLICA ILLANES Director, School of History and Social Sciences, Universidad ARCIS, Chile HUCK-JU KWON Professor, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea FERNANDO PRADA Associate Researcher, FORO Nacional/ Internacional, Peru ALEXANDERPEYRE DUTREY Research Assistant, UNRISD, Switzerland FRANCISCO SAGASTI President, FORO Nacional/ Internacional, Peru

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Introduction; S.M.Draibe & M.Riesco PART I: LATIN AMERICA, MODERNIZING ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE 21ST CENTURY Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State Model in the Making? S.M.Draibe & M.Riesco PART II: IN THE HIGHLANDS OF ANCIENT AMERICAN EMPIRES Mexico's Welfare State: Birth, Growth and Retrenchment (1822-2002); V.Brachet-Márquez Social Policy in a Development Context: The Case of Peru; F.Sagasti, F.Prada & M.Bazán PART III: IN THE RICH SHORES OF LATE IMMIGRANTS Social Policy and Economic Regime in Argentina: Crisis and Retrenchment of Social Protection; A.C.Barbeito & L.Goldberg Uruguay's Social and Economic Challenges and Its Policy Responses; M.Bonino, H-j.Kwon & A.Peyre Dutrey PART IV: IN THE IMPERIAL IMMENSITIES, AND THE REVOLUTIONARY ISLAND, OF FORMER AMERICAN SLAVERY The Brazilian Developmental Welfare State: Rise, Decline and Perspectives; S.M.Draibe Social Policies in Cuba within the Context of Development (1902-2002); J.A.Díaz Vázquez & J.Carranza Valdés PART V: IN THE MEAGRE FRINGES OF EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS Social Policy and Social Reform 'Costa Rican Style': A Paradigmatic Case of Heterodoxy in the Context of a Peripheral Economy; M.Barahona, L.Güendell & C.Castro Valverde Developmental Welfare State and Social Change in Chile; M.A.Illanes & M.Riesco