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Title Chronicle of a myth foretold : the Washington Consensus in Latin America / special editors of this volume, Douglas S. Massey, Magaly Sanchez R., and Jere R. Behrman.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, [2006]
©2006

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Description 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 606
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 606.
Note "July 2006."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction : of myths and markets / Douglas S. Massey, Magely Sanchez R., and Jere R. Behrman -- Neoliberalism and patterns of economic performance, 1980-2000 / Joseph Nathan Cohen and Miguel Angel Centeno -- Vanishing assets : cumulative disadvantage among the urban poor / Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha -- Consequences of structural adjustment on economic and social domains : two decades in the life of Peru / Orland Plaza and Nelly P. Stromquist -- Salvese quien pueda : structural adjustment and emigration from Lima / Douglas S. Massey and Chiara Capoferro -- Frustrated achievers : winner, losers, and subjective well-being in Peru's emerging economy / Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato -- The metamorphosis of marginality : four generations in the favelas of Rio de Janiero / Janice E. Perlman -- Insecurity and violence as a new power relation in Latin America / Magaly Sanchez R. -- Lula's political economy : changes and challenges / Paulo Paiva -- Public and private responses to social exclusion among youth in Sao Paulo / Pedro Jacobi -- Reform of the state : an alternative for change in Latin America / Carlos Blanco -- Mitigating myths about policy effectiveness : evaluation of Mexico's antipoverty and human resource investment program / Jere R. Behrman and Emmanuel Skoufias.
Subject Free trade -- Latin America.
Free trade.
Latin America.
Latin America -- Economic policy.
Economic policy.
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 1982-
Subject Latin America -- Social policy.
Social policy.
Latin America -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Economic development.
Economic development.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Latin America.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Added Author Massey, Douglas S.
Sánchez, Magaly.
Behrman, Jere Richard, 1940-
American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Added Title Washington Consensus in Latin America
ISBN 1412950074 paper
1412950082 cloth