The book analyzes the social consequences of recent development strategies in Latin America. The volume introduces readers to official strategies, private initiatives and individual responses to issues of welfare and poverty during the twentieth century. These issues are addressed from several disciplines. A substantial introduction is followed by a wide range of case-studies, including Pinochet's Chile, the Haiti of the Duvaliers and Nicaragua under the somocistas and sandinistas, as well as Brazil, Mexico, the Argentine, Cuba and Colombia.

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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