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Good Jobs and Social Services

How Costa Rica achieved the elusive double incorporation

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Juliana Martínez Franzoni

    1. University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

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  2. Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction (POD)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. A Country That Tamed an Elusive Challenge

    • Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Economic Policy Regime and the Two Phases of Market Incorporation

    • Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
    Pages 28-63

  4. The Social Policy Regime: Creation, Expansion and Resilience

    • Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
    Pages 64-101

  5. The State as the Central Actor: Elites, Ideas and Legacies

    • Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
    Pages 102-132

  6. Conclusion: What Can We Learn from the Costa Rican Case?

    • Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
    Pages 133-144

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 145-176
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About this book

Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services). This book reviews Costa Rica's experience as one of the few successful cases of double incorporation in the periphery.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

    Juliana Martínez Franzoni

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

About the authors

Juliana Martínez Franzoni is Associate Professor at the University of Costa Rica. Her work on social policy formation and socioeconomic and gender inequality in Latin America has been most recently rewarded with fellowships by Fulbright, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the British Academy. She currently conducts research on the formation of universal social policies in the periphery, and changes in work–family policies in Latin America.

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America at the University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College. His research, which focuses on state–society relations, income distribution and public policy, has been published in journals, including World Development, Journal of Latin American Studies and Studies in Comparative International Development.

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