Latin America

1. Introduction
Sônia M. Draibe, Manuel Riesco

Part I. Latin America: Modernizing on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

2. Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State in the Making?
Sônia M. Draibe, Manuel Riesco

Part II. In the Highlands of Ancient American Empires

3. Mexico’s Welfare State: Birth, Growth and Retrenchment (1822–2002)
Viviane Brachet-Márquez

4. Social Policy in a Development Context: The Case of Peru
Francisco Sagasti, Fernando Prada, Mario Bazán

Part III. On the Rich Shores of Late Immigrants

5. Social Policy and Economic Regime in Argentina: Crisis and Retrenchment of Social Protection
Alberto C. Barbeito, Laura Goldberg

6. Uruguay’s Social and Economic Challenges and Its Policy Responses
Maria Bonino, Huck-ju Kwon, Alexander Peyre Dutrey

Part IV. In the Imperial Immensities, and the Revolutionary Island, of Former American Slavery

7. The Brazilian Developmental Welfare State: Rise, Decline and Perspectives
Sônia M. Draibe

8. Social Policies in Cuba within the Context of Development (1902–2002)
Julio A. Díaz Vázquez, Julio Carranza Valdés

Part V. On the Meagre Fringes of Early American Settlers

9. Social Policy and Social Reform ‘Costa Rican Style’: A Paradigmatic Case of Heterodoxy in the Context of a Peripheral Economy
Manuel Barahona, Ludwig Güendel, Carlos Castro

10. Developmentalism and Social Change in Chile
María Angélica Illanes, Manuel Riesco

Keywords: Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Development Economics, International Economics, Latin American Culture, Politics of the Welfare State