Keywords
agent for development
basic welfare policies
Western capitalist democracies
social policy
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Abstract
This document has an objective: to offer a historical reconstruction of the formation process of the Mexican State in terms of its responsibilities and duties as an agent for development, mostly with regard to the evolution and scope of the basic welfare policies. The purpose of this summing-up is to know, by taking the events in the Western capitalist democracies as a starting point, what type of social policy could be created in our country throughout the 20th century, what changes it has undergone through the years, the origins of its limited capacity for inclusion and the gaps still remaining in the shaping of a universal and unified welfare State.
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