Spain: Development, Democracy and Equity

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Spain: Development, Democracy and Equity

dc.contributor.author	Boix, Carles
dc.date.accessioned	2012-06-26T15:41:28Z
dc.date.available	2012-06-26T15:41:28Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.description.abstract	Spain stands as one of the few countries in the world which have completed a successful transition from authoritarianism and relative underdevelopment to democracy and economic abundance in the last half century. This paper explores the nature and causes of the economic underdevelopment of Spain since the 19th century and the violent collapse of its brief democratic experiment in the early 1930s. The Franco regime ? particularly its heavily regulated economy in place till the late 1950s, the decision to liberalize it in 1959, and the period of rapid growth that followed -- are discussed. A democratic transition, which occurred following the death of Franco in 1975, was possible due to the economic growth and the formation of a broad middle class in the 1960s. Also discussed is the impact of democratization on the structure of the welfare state in Spain.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/9209
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9209
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	World Development Report 2006
dc.title	Spain: Development, Democracy and Equity	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T11:53:16.838748Z
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.language.supported	en
okr.region.administrative	Europe and Central Asia
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5987
okr.topic	Conflict and Development
okr.topic	Finance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.topic	Labor
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Private Sector