Social Development In Latin America

Author : José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher : Santiago, Chile : United Nations
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015220515

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A Decade of Social Development in Latin America, 1990-1999 by José Antonio Ocampo Pdf

The final decade of twentieth century was momentous for Latin America, as it witnessed sweeping changes with regard to previous trends in the region. Most important were the revival of economic growth and the reduction of poverty. Another significant phenomenon was impact of international crises on Latin American countries. This book analyzes what happened between 1990 and 1999 and revisits issues of interest to ECLAC, using the same approach that has characterized the Social Panorama of Latin America. Analysis begins with a look at poverty, income distribution, employment, occupational stratification, the role of education, the intergenerational transmission of opportunities for achieving well-being and the contribution of social spending to the improvement of the population's standard of living and at interrelationships between these dimensions and economic growth. It also uses opinion polls carried out in many of the countries to describe the Latin American population's subjective reactions changes in the 1990s--Publisher's description.

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9211220696

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Social Panorama of Latin America 2020 by United Nations Publications Pdf

This publication examines the social impact of an unprecedented crisis.

Author : Mayra Buvinić,Jacqueline Mazza,Ruthanne Deutsch
Publisher : IDB
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781931003650

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Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America by Mayra Buvinić,Jacqueline Mazza,Ruthanne Deutsch Pdf

Poverty and inequality in Latin America are easily recognizable in the faces of women, Afro-descendents, the indigenous, people with disabilities, victims of HIV/AIDS, and other groups outside the societal mainstream. Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America reviews the common features of these excluded populations, including their invisibility in official statistics and the stigma, discrimination, and disadvantages they have long endured. But it also examines the region's inclusionary policies and programs that can improve access by these groups to the quality social services and economic and political resources these groups need to level the playing field. Case studies examine ethnic and racial political organization, gender quotas, and labor markets across the region, and social exclusion in Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Comparative studies summarize social inclusion policies of both the European Union and selected countries on the Continent.

Author : Joseph S. Tulchin,Allison M. Garland
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555878431

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Social Development in Latin America by Joseph S. Tulchin,Allison M. Garland Pdf

This volume provides a wide-ranging analysis of social welfare reform in Latin America, examining in particular the politics involved in implementing difficult and controversial social policies that often pit the middle strata of society, represented by powerful stakeholders, against the poor.

Author : Rebecca Ray,Kevin Gallagher,Andres López,Cynthia Sanborn
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783086160

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China and Sustainable Development in Latin America by Rebecca Ray,Kevin Gallagher,Andres López,Cynthia Sanborn Pdf

During Latin America’s China-led commodity boom, governments turned a blind eye to the inherent flaws in the region’s economic policy. Now that the commodity boom is coming to an end, those flaws cannot be ignored. High on the list of shortcomings is the fact that Latin American governments—and Chinese investors—largely fell short of mitigating the social and environmental impacts of commodity-led growth. The recent commodity boom exacerbated pressure on the region’s waterways and forests, accentuating threats to human health, biodiversity, global climate change and local livelihoods. China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impact of the China-led commodity boom in the region. It also highlights important areas of innovation, like Chile’s solar energy sector, in which governments, communities and investors worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.

Author : Fernando Henrique Cardoso,Enzo Faletto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520342118

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Dependency and Development in Latin America by Fernando Henrique Cardoso,Enzo Faletto Pdf

At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of political and economic dependence for a new kind of dependency on the international capitalism of multinational corporations. In the much-acclaimed original Spanish edition (Dependencia y Desarrollo en América Latina) and now in the expanded and revised English version, Cardoso and Faletto offer a sophisticated analysis of the economic development of Latin America. The economic dependency of Latin America stems not merely from the domination of the world market over internal national and "enclave" economies, but also from the much more complex interact ion of economic drives, political structures, social movements, and historically conditioned alliances. While heeding the unique histories of individual nations, the authors discern four general stages in Latin America's economic development: the early outward expansion of newly independent nations, the political emergence of the middle sector, the formation of internal markets in response to population growth, and the new dependence on international markets. In a postscript for this edition, Cardoso and Faletto examine the political, social and economic changes of the past ten years in light of their original hypotheses.

Author : Helena Alviar García
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000387018

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Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America by Helena Alviar García Pdf

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence. The opposing concepts of modernization theory and Dependency Theory can be seen to be playing out within the field of legal transformation, as some legal analysts define law as a closed, formal, rational system, and others see law as inseparable from economic, social and political change. Legal experiments have followed these trends, in some cases using legal instruments to guarantee classical, civil and political rights, and in others demanding radical transformation of existing legal structures. This book traces these debates across the key topics of: economic development and foreign investment; property; resource and power distribution in terms of gender and social policy. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book adds complexity and color to our understanding of these themes in Latin America. This insightful exploration of comparative law within Latin America provides the tools needed to understand legal transformation in the region, and as such will be of interest to researchers within law, political sociology, development and Latin American studies.

Author : Natália Sátyro,Eloísa del Pino,Carmen Midaglia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030612702

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Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century by Natália Sátyro,Eloísa del Pino,Carmen Midaglia Pdf

This book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century. It describes how and to what extent changes in social protection systems and social policies have occurred in the region in recent decades. Taking a comparative approach, the volume identifies the triggers for the transformations and how such pressures are received by the welfare regime, or a specific policy sector, to finally yield a given type of reform. The analysis is characterized by the presence of certain factors that explain the development of social protection systems in Latin America, such as economic growth, the consolidation of democratic political regimes, and the region’s Left Turns. The book also examines to what extent common challenges and processes induced by international institutions have led to convergence among countries or welfare regimes, or whether each maintains its own identity.

Author : Expert Working Group on Social Aspects of Economical Development in Latin America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UOM:39015000629470

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Social Aspects of Economic Development in Latin America: A study, by J. M. Echavarría and B. Higgins with introd. and conclusions by H. M. Phillips by Expert Working Group on Social Aspects of Economical Development in Latin America Pdf

Author : Maristella Svampa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1788530926

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Development in Latin America by Maristella Svampa Pdf

In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development -- the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system -- in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable outcomes. She focuses on the phenomenon of "neoextractivism," the combination of the global advance of resource-seeking extractive capital (foreign investments in the extraction of natural resources) and the commodities consensus (export of raw materials), among both neoliberal and progressive governments -- analyzing their common elements as well as their differences. Svampa explores the complex dynamics of socio-environmental conflict associated with neoextractivism, as well as what she refers to as the "eco-territorial turn." Svampa's analysis includes both the ecological and gender dimensions of the global and regional capitalist development process. Maristella Svampa is an Argentine sociologist, writer and activist. She is a researcher at Conicet (Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and a professor at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Buenos Aires Province). She participates in the Permanent Alternative to Development Group in Latin America and coordinates several groups concerned with ecological themes in Argentina. Maristella Svampa has written several books about political and social problems in Latin America.

Author : Eduardo Lora,Francesca Castellani
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800085

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Entrepreneurship in Latin America by Eduardo Lora,Francesca Castellani Pdf

"A copublication of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank."

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264685932

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How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making by OECD Pdf

Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people’s lives? How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making addresses this question by presenting comparative evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a focus on 11 LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay).

Author : Sara Calvo,Andrés Morales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000357097

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Social Innovation in Latin America by Sara Calvo,Andrés Morales Pdf

The Latin American continent contains an incredibly rich diversity from which humans derive a range of ecosystem services (e.g. material goods, cultural benefits, climate regulation, etc.) that contribute to livelihoods and well-being. It has become critical to reconcile social and environmental issues in the region to ensure that development is sustainable and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. To ensure the sustainable use and management of social and natural capital in the region, business, government, social enterprises and NGOs are engaging in different forms of social innovation that account for social, ecological and environmental values. This requires the integration of social and natural capital into decision-making at all levels. Latin America presents a useful scenario to explore social innovation in relation to social and environmental values and the management of local human and natural resources. This book presents social innovation initiatives that incorporate social and natural capital into decision-making processes in Latin America. This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of social innovation for maintaining and restoring social and natural capital in Latin America. Using case studies from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico, this book provides an insight into the interactions between social innovation and social and natural capital in Latin America and will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of social innovation, management studies, environmental economics and sustainability.

Author : Simone Cecchini,Fernando Filgueira,Rodrigo Martínez,Cecilia Rossel Odriozola
Publisher : UN
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UIUC:30112116029015

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Towards Universal Social Protection by Simone Cecchini,Fernando Filgueira,Rodrigo Martínez,Cecilia Rossel Odriozola Pdf

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. Its discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.

Author : Candelaria Garay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107152229

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Social Policy Expansion in Latin America by Candelaria Garay Pdf

This book provides a novel explanation of widespread social policy expansion in Latin America beginning in the 1990s.