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The Politics of Poverty in Argentina in the 1990s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nancy R. Powers
Nancy R. Powers*
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Florida State University
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One of the principal criticisms of the neoliberal direction that guides most economic policymaking in Latin America today is that the structural adjustments now being imposed will increase the level of social inequity and decrease the already low standard of living of poor citizens. The Comisión Económica para América Latina (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) studied the changes that took place across the region during the 1980s and found that the distribution of wealth became increasingly inequitable while the level of poverty increased, to which Argentina was no exception (CEPAL, 1991b and 1991c). In the latter case, where President Carlos Menem has spearheaded a radical restructuring of his country's economy, the rise of poverty was a prominent domestic issue in the early 1990s, yet there was little electoral response to this issue, nor did political pressure succeed in changing the course of Menem's policies.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , Winter 1995 , pp. 89 - 138
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Copyright © University of Miami 1995

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