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The Political Economy of Reform in Latin America: Politics, Institutions, Ideas, and Context

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Pamela K. Starr*
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Copyright © 2009 by the Latin American Studies Association

References

1. Inter-American Development Bank, The Politics of Policies, Economic and Social Progress in Latin America (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, 2005).

2. On modern political economy, see Jeffrey A. Frieden, Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965–1985 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), chap. 1, “Modern Political Economy and Latin American Borrowing.”