%0 Journal Article
%A Cruz Martínez, Gibrán Alberto
%T Welfare state development, individual deprivations and income inequality: a cross-country analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean
%D 2017
%@ 0303-8300
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96730
%X The purpose of this paper is to re-examine from a multidimensional perspective the possibleexistence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare statedevelopment (WSD) in Latin America. Economic/industrial development, trade-openness,democracy and the strength of leftist parties-labour movement are used as explanatoryvariables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this papershows that there is no evidence of a common path followed by countries with a relativelyhigh/medium WSD. Nevertheless, countries that experienced a low economic/industrialdevelopment combined with a low democratic experience were conditioned to have a lowWSD.
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