Systems of social protection can provide crucial assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable groups in society, but not all systems are created equally. In La

Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.

The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. It argues that the tolerance of street vending and squatting is a form of informal we

This book is one of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection,

Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished