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Some Thoughts on Poverty and Recession in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gert Rosenthal
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By now, it has become a platitude to proclaim that, over the past decade, Latin America has experienced its deepest, most prolonged economic recession in modern history. Nevertheless, this has indeed been the case. The magnitude and effects of the crisis have, of course, varied from country to country, and so have the policy responses. What is undeniable is that not one single country has escaped the recessionary impact of a complex combination of circumstances which appeared on the horizon in the early 1980s, and in which an adverse international economic environment played a prominent role.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 31 , Issue 1-2: Special Issue: Latin America at the Crossroads: Major Public Policy Issues , Spring/Summer 1989 , pp. 63 - 74
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Copyright © University of Miami 1989

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