In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ('globalization'), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more...

Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia. Using the concept of the developmental welfare state, this book seeks to answer whether the welfare reforms in East Asia have extended social rights while maintaining its developmental credentials....

"Thoughtful analysis by one of Mexico's leading scholars on the labor movement explores changing role of labor within Mexico's economic model. Raises important questions about labor's position in the new economic environment, and more specifically since the initiation of NAFTA"--Handbook of...