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Articles by Carlos Medeiros
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Asset-Stripping the State
in NLR 55, January-February 2009, pp. 109-132
Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , World Economy and Globalization , Economic Policy
Within the global wave of privatizations, those enacted in Latin America stand out for their breathtaking speed and scale. Medeiros contends that the principal motivation was not economic but political, driven by new capitalist coalitions emerging from the 1980s debt crisis.
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Also available in Spanish