Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina

by Tracy Beck Fenwick

Fenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability of a national government to sustain a conditional cash transfer program.

With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268028966
• ISBN13: 9780268028961
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"