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This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere’s most advanced social-democratic welfare states. In the early 1980s, the Latin American debt crisis struck Costa Rica, leading to major cutbacks in the social programs that had permitted the rural poor to attain an acceptable standard of living and a modicum of dignity.<br> <br> Peasants were in the forefront of movements against these cutbacks, marching, blocking hi
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- Author
- Edelman, Marc
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press ; Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804734011
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Management, Sociology, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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