The Effects of Economic Adjustment on Poverty in Mexico

by Thomas J. Kelly

First published in 1999, this study seeks to explore the effects of economic adjustment and why the classical prescriptions for structural adjustment did not succeed in Mexico, or at best succeeded only partially. It asks why growth was retarded, not accelerated; inequality rose rather than fell; poverty increased rather than declined; informalization of the economy occurred rather than modernization. Mexico's story needs to be better known and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138387320
• ISBN13: 9781138387324
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"