Tuesday, December 18, 2007

[IWS] IADB: ECONOMIC & SOCIAL PROGRESS in LATIN AMERICA 2008 Report

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016
-------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROGRESS IN LATIN AMERICA 2008 REPORT [IPES 2008]

OUTSIDERS?
The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.iadb.org/res/ipes/2008/index.cfm
or
http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=1154386
[full-text, 304 pages]

Contents
Annotated Table of Contents. v
Preface. ix
Acknowledgments. xi

Part I The Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion
Chapter 1
Outsiders? . 3
Chapter 2
Traditional Excluding Forces: A Review of the Literature . 15
Chapter 3
Discrimination in Latin America: The Proverbial Elephant in the Room?. 31
Chapter 4
State Reform and Inclusion: Changing Channels and New Actors . 45
Chap er 5
Bad Jobs, Low Wages, and Exclusion . 71
Chapter 6
Social Mobility and Social Exclusion . 101
Chapter 7
To What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments .
on Social Exclusion in Six Latin American Countries . 123

Part II Beyond Material Deprivation
Chapter 8
Privatization and Social Exclusion in Latin America. 149
Chapter 9
Exclusion and Politics . 159
Chapter 10
Social Exclusion and Violence. 171
Chapter 11
Exclusion and Financial Services. 183
Chapter 12
Modern Forms of Program Delivery and Exclusion. 193

Part III Advancing inclusion
Chapter 13
Inclusion and Public Policy. 203
Chapter 14
The Inclusion Process in Motion in Latin America and the Caribbean . 215

References. 245
Index . 275

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