Books in the Routledge Studies in Latin American Development series

This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level.

This book looks at how conditional cash transfer programmes have affected the lives of rural communities in Latin America since the schemes appeared on the scene twenty years ago. With case studies ranging from Chile, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Colombia, this book will interest scholars of anthropology, sociology, development, economics and politics.

This book analyses how social protection systems and welfare regimes are applied in contemporary Latin America, and how they can help promote development, and reduce poverty and inequality. This interdisciplinary volume will interest economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection.

This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the 20th and 21st century.

This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom.

As the world considers what the ultimate legacy of Morales¿s left-wing social experiment will be, this book will be of great interest to researchers across the fields of Latin American Studies, Development, Politics, and Economics, as well as to professionals active in the promotion of development in the country and the region.

This book analyses how social protection systems and welfare regimes are applied in contemporary Latin America, and how they can help promote development, and reduce poverty and inequality. This interdisciplinary volume will interest economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection.