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Gain new, unique insights for poverty reduction throughout Latin America Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American-U.S. Borderlands: Implications of U.S. Interventions shows the implications of direct and indirect involvement by the United States in the borderlands of Latin America, including Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guatemala. Recognized authorities give expert analysis of the implications of United States’ intervention on entrenched socioeconomic problems, while offering unique insights into poverty reduction. Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American-U.S. Borderlands: Implications of U.S. Interventions focuses on: the lasting effects of counterinsurgency-fuelled social change in Guatemala the true effects of Progresa, Mexico’s Program for Education, Health and Nutrition the anti-military struggle of the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico against the United States Navy the survival strategies that Cuban women have developed to survive in hard economic times the reinforcement of rural poverty through subsidy programs in South Mexico powerful stories detailing personal experiences with poverty and inequality Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American-U.S. Borderlands: Implications of U.S. Interventions is a valuable resource for sociologists, anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, public policy experts, and everyone interested in a detailed look at the complex economic, political, and social problems of Latin America.

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Author:   Keith Kilty ,  Elizabeth Segal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.226kg
ISBN:  

9780789027528

ISBN 10:   0789027526
Pages:   148
Publication Date:   04 March 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Poverty and Inequality in the Latin American-U.S. Borderlands: Implications of U.S. Interventions: Introduction (Keith M. Kilty and Elizabeth A. Segal) Constructing the Threat of Insurgency: Inherent Inequalities in the Development of the Guatemalan Counterinsurgent State (M. Gabriela Torres) Mexico’s Progresa Program (1997-2000): An Example of Neo-Liberal Poverty Alleviation Programs Concerned with Gender, Human Capital Development, Responsibility and Choice (Lucy Luccisano) U.S. Navy versus Vieques, Puerto Rico: Social Justice Through Civil Disobedience (Carmen I. Aponte) Dônde Están los Huevos? Surviving in Times of Economic Hardship: Cuban Mothers, the State, and Making Ends Meet (Rebecca Burwell) New Rural Poverty: The Tangled Web of Environmental Protection and Economic Aid in Southern Mexico (Nora Haenn) THOUGHTS ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY Operation Pedro Pan: One Family’s Journey to the U.S. (Maria Vidal de Haymes) Poverty, Crisis, and Resilience of Spirit (Mauricio Cifuentes) Index Reference Notes Included

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