How Well Are Latin American Nations Fighting Poverty?
Which countries are doing the best job of helping lift individuals and families out of poverty?
Which countries are doing the best job of helping lift individuals and families out of poverty?
How useful are the MDG’s broad targets as measurements of progress in the region?
Why has growth of the region’s middle class slowed down? What needs to be done to maintain the gains of the last decade?
The volume takes a broad view of recent social, political, and economic developments in Latin America. It contains six essays, focused on salient and cross-cutting themes, that try to construct a thread or narrative about the highly diverse region, highlighting its main idiosyncrasies and analyzing where it might be headed in coming years.
O volume tem uma visão ampla dos recentes desenvolvimentos sociais, políticos e econômicos na América Latina. Ele contém seis ensaios, focados em temas salientes e transversais, que tentam construir um fio ou uma narrativa sobre a região altamente diversificada, destacando suas principais idiossincrasias e analisando para onde ela deve se encaminhar nos próximos anos.
El libro busca hacer un balance de donde se encuentra América Latina en una serie de temas cruciales: desarrollo socioeconómico, seguridad y violencia, estado de derecho, crecimiento económico, integración regional y relaciones con el mundo.