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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826907903321

Titolo

Changing paths : international development and the new politics of inclusion / / edited by Peter P. Houtzager and Mick Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-44534-0

9786612445347

0-472-02481-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoutzagerPeter P

MooreMick

Disciplina

320.6

Soggetti

Economic development - Political aspects

Poverty - Government policy

Distributive justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction: From Polycentrism to the Polity""; ""2 Political Capabilities over the Long Run""; ""3 Beyond the Political Impossibility Theorem of  Agrarian Reform""; ""4 Coalition Building from Below""; ""5 Grounds for Alliance?: Overlapping  Interests of Poor and Not so Poor""; ""6 The Boundaries of Antipoverty Policy: Economic Ideas, Political Coalitions, and the Structure of Social Provisions in Chile and Mexico ""; ""7 Polity Qualities: How Governance Afflicts Poverty""

""8 Do Political Regimes Matter?: Poverty Reduction And Regime Differences Across India""""9 Does Decentralization Contribute to Poverty Reduction?: Surveying the Evidence ""; ""10 Arguing the Politics of Inclusion""; ""Contributors""; ""Subject Index""; ""Author Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how the world's disadvantaged may be enabled to claim a greater share of material wealth.