Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index.
Social forces and history: explaining divergent poverty and distributional outcomes -- South Korea: the historical origins of equitable growth -- Chile: the historical origins of inequality -- Mexico: the historical origins of poverty and inequality -- Social forces, the state, and distributional outcomes -- The 1980s and 1990s: economic and social outcomes diverge -- Social conditions and welfare regimes in the twenty first century
Social forces and history : explaining divergent poverty and distributional outcomes -- South Korea : the historical origins of equitable growth -- Chile : the historical origins of inequality -- Mexico : the historical origins of poverty and inequality -- Social forces, the state, and distributional outcomes -- The 1980s and 1990s : economic and social outcomes diverge -- Social conditions and welfare regimes in the twenty first century