The decade of the 1980s was a period of profound and painful structural adjustment in Latin America. In Poverty and Inequality in Latin America Samuel Morley offers an analysis of the effects of that adjustment on poverty and distribution of income. Morley also draws conclusions about the factors that will be important in poverty alleviation in the future. "An excellent book. It will undoubtedly become the standard reference on the poverty effects of the Latin American debt crisis and adjustment policies, and of the recent ...
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The decade of the 1980s was a period of profound and painful structural adjustment in Latin America. In Poverty and Inequality in Latin America Samuel Morley offers an analysis of the effects of that adjustment on poverty and distribution of income. Morley also draws conclusions about the factors that will be important in poverty alleviation in the future. "An excellent book. It will undoubtedly become the standard reference on the poverty effects of the Latin American debt crisis and adjustment policies, and of the recent economic recoveries in many countries." -- Alain de Janvry, University of California-Berkeley
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