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Tables Chapter 4 1 Factors Contributing to Coalition Building and In›uence in the Philippines and Peru 96 Chapter 6 1 Patterns of Social Welfare Policy in Chile and Mexico 140 2 The Transformation and Retransformation of Social Welfare in Chile 147 3 Decentralized Social and Infrastructural Investment in Chile 148 4 Public Subsidies as a Percentage of Cash Income, by Income Quintile, Chile 151 5 Production and Consumption-Oriented Spending in Mexico’s PRONASOL Program, 1989–94 155 6 Antipoverty Spending in Mexico under President Zedillo, 1995–98 156 Chapter 7 A.1 The Sample Countries and Values of the Dependent and Main Independent Variables 192 A.2 Country Classi‹cation for Location/Africa Dummy Variables 194 A.3 Regression Results 195 Chapter 8 1 Two Rankings of Major Indian States by Extent of Rural Poverty Reduction 207 2 Development Expenditure per Capita at the State Level 209 3 Rate of Growth of Crop Yields 210 4 A Typology of Indian State Regimes 215 5 Proportion of Developmental Expenditure on Education in Eight States, 1980–81 to 1997–98 222 6 Expenditure per Capita on Education in Eight States, 1980–81 and 1990–91 223 7 “Desired Distribution” and “Actual Distribution” of Food in Major States under the Public Distribution System, Late 1980s 224 Chapter 9 1 The Outcomes of Decentralization, by Country 253 viii Tables ...

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