Social Forces and States: Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile and Mexico

摘要

Figure 1 in the appendix of this book offers timelines for each country of 'critical conjunctures, path-dependent and reactionary sequences, and social outcomes'. South Korea is depicted as having experienced a massive critical conjuncture between 1930 and 1953, leading to a virtuous circle of rapid and equitable economic development with sustained poverty reduction, modified somewhat by political transition (from 1987 to 1991) and the East Asian financial crisis of 1997. The account of Chile starts with a less radical critical conjuncture (1919-41) followed by a reactive sequence of relative stagnation (1941-73) and a second critical conjuncture (1973-84) leading to political transition and more progressive civilian rule, resulting in sustained growth and poverty reduction but with persistently high inequality.