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This chapter is intended first as a reflection on the difficulty of making cross-country comparison of welfare and equity. For this it takes as case studies Peru and Colombia. Secondly, having drawn tentative conclusions on the respective records of the two countries since the 1960s, and taken the data problems into account, it discusses reasons for the relatively slight progress registered in basic needs indicators for both.
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© 1993 Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis
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Thorp, R. (1993). Growth, Distribution and Basic Needs in Peru and Colombia. In: Abel, C., Lewis, C.M. (eds) Welfare, Poverty and Development in Latin America. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11325-5_6
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