Latin America

MANUEL RIESCO is Vice President of the National Centre for Development Studies (Centro de Estudios Nacionales de Desarrollo Alternativo/CENDA), Chile, and of the Foundation for Poverty Elimination. He has held administrative and teaching positions at universities in Chile and the United States, and has been senior advisor to the Chilean government and parliament. He has written widely on Chilean development, and is the editor of Revista Encuentro XXI.

• Introduction; S.M.Draibe & M.Riesco PART I: LATIN AMERICA, MODERNIZING ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE 21ST CENTURY Latin America: A New Developmental Welfare State Model in the Making? S.M.Draibe & M.Riesco PART II: IN THE HIGHLANDS OF ANCIENT AMERICAN EMPIRES Mexico's Welfare State: Birth, Growth and Retrenchment (1822-2002); V.Brachet-Márquez Social Policy in a Development Context: The Case of Peru; F.Sagasti, F.Prada & M.Bazán PART III: IN THE RICH SHORES OF LATE IMMIGRANTS Social Policy and Economic Regime in Argentina: Crisis and Retrenchment of Social Protection; A.C.Barbeito & L.Goldberg Uruguay's Social and Economic Challenges and Its Policy Responses; M.Bonino, H-j.Kwon & A.Peyre Dutrey PART IV: IN THE IMPERIAL IMMENSITIES, AND THE REVOLUTIONARY ISLAND, OF FORMER AMERICAN SLAVERY The Brazilian Developmental Welfare State: Rise, Decline and Perspectives; S.M.Draibe Social Policies in Cuba within the Context of Development (1902-2002); J.A.Díaz Vázquez & J.Carranza Valdés PART V: IN THE MEAGRE FRINGES OF EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS Social Policy and Social Reform 'Costa Rican Style': A Paradigmatic Case of Heterodoxy in the Context of a Peripheral Economy; M.Barahona, L.Güendell & C.Castro Valverde Developmental Welfare State and Social Change in Chile; M.A.Illanes & M.Riesco