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What explains Costa Rica’s overall success and increasing tensions? Why did Costa Rica create a state-centred economic policy regime along with a universal social policy regime between 1950 and 1980? Why did the economic policy regime change significantly since the 1980s, paying increasingly less attention to market incorporation, while the social policy regime remained basically unchanged?
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Franzoni, J.M., Sánchez-Ancochea, D. (2013). The State as the Central Actor: Elites, Ideas and Legacies. In: Good Jobs and Social Services. Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308429_4
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