Do the Poor Count? : : Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty / / Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson.
Latin America's flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy...
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