“…Poverty intensified as a result of the austerity and structural adjustment packages instituted by the state in response to IMF demands (Payer, 1985;Frieden, 1985;Bolles, 1986;Pastor, 1987;MacEwan, 1990;Sachs, 1989a;Edwards, 1989;Beneria, 1992;Dietz, 1989;Handelman and Baer, 1989; Haggard and Kaufman, 1989;Nash, 1992;Safa and Antrobus, 1992;McFarren, 1992;Feldman, 1992;Cardoso and Helwege, 1992a). Included among the poor is the popular class that, Garcia Canclini (1993) argues, has emerged in and through the economic and political process of development in Latin America.…”