Social Welfare In Latin America

Author : John Dixon,Robert P. Scheurell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317366621

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Social Welfare in Latin America by John Dixon,Robert P. Scheurell Pdf

First published in 1990, this book analyses social welfare in Latin America, at that time. For each country it considers the ideological framework underlying the social welfare system and describes the historical development of both the system and the political and socio-economic context. Each chapter looks at the structure and administration of the systems in place and how these are financed. This is followed by a consideration of the nature of different parts of the welfare system, a survey of social security, personal social services and the treatment of the following key target groups: the aged; those with disabilities and handicaps; children and youth; disadvantaged families; the unemployed; and the sick and injured. Each chapter concludes with an assessment of the effectiveness of the system considered.

Author : Gibrán Cruz-Martínez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429895661

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Welfare and Social Protection in Contemporary Latin America by Gibrán Cruz-Martínez Pdf

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America through the state-led development era, the neoliberal era and the pink-tide. The second section explores the role played by local and external actors modelling social policy in the region. The third and final section addresses a variety of contemporary debates and challenges around social protection and welfare in the region, such as gender roles and the empowerment of CCT beneficiaries, and welfare provision for rural outsiders. The book touches on key topics such as conditional cash transfer programmes, trade union inclusionary strategies, transnational social policy, state-led versus market-led welfare provision, explanatory factors in the emerging dualism of social protection institutions, social citizenship rights as a consequence of changing social policy architecture and different poverty reduction strategies. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection in Latin America, or interested in welfare systems in the global south.

Author : Candelaria Garay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.

Author : Natália Sátyro,Eloísa del Pino,Carmen Midaglia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210575218

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Towards Universal Social Protection by United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Developing Countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036430796

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Social Welfare in Latin America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alain De Janvry,Elisabeth Sadoulet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 9221100480

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Poverty, Equity, and Social Welfare in Latin America by Alain De Janvry,Elisabeth Sadoulet Pdf

Author : Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691214153

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Development, Democracy, and Welfare States by Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman Pdf

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. After World War II, communist regimes in Eastern Europe adopted wide-ranging socialist entitlements while conservative dictatorships in East Asia sharply limited social security but invested in education. In Latin America, where welfare systems were instituted earlier, unequal social-security systems favored formal sector workers and the middle class. Haggard and Kaufman compare the different welfare paths of the countries in these regions following democratization and the move toward more open economies. Although these transformations generated pressure to reform existing welfare systems, economic performance and welfare legacies exerted a more profound influence. The authors show how exclusionary welfare systems and economic crisis in Latin America created incentives to adopt liberal social-policy reforms, while social entitlements from the communist era limited the scope of liberal reforms in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. In East Asia, high growth and permissive fiscal conditions provided opportunities to broaden social entitlements in the new democracies. This book highlights the importance of placing the contemporary effects of democratization and globalization into a broader historical context.

Author : Jennifer Pribble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107030220

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Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America by Jennifer Pribble Pdf

Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.

Author : Christopher Abel,Colin M. Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349113255

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Welfare, Poverty and Development in Latin America by Christopher Abel,Colin M. Lewis Pdf

The book analyzes the social consequences of recent development strategies in Latin America. The volume introduces readers to official strategies, private initiatives and individual responses to issues of welfare and poverty during the twentieth century. These issues are addressed from several disciplines. A substantial introduction is followed by a wide range of case-studies, including Pinochet's Chile, the Haiti of the Duvaliers and Nicaragua under the somocistas and sandinistas, as well as Brazil, Mexico, the Argentine, Cuba and Colombia.

Author : Simone Cecchini (ECLAC.)
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9210210859

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Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America by Simone Cecchini (ECLAC.) Pdf

This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual elements, needs and the challenges that will have to be overcome to consolidate comprehensive social protection systems in Latin America. The authors argue that these should be solidarity-based systems that provide universal coverage and are essentially egalitarian in the guarantees established as citizens' rights. Citizenship as a whole is thus becoming part of protection policies as the region moves towards all-encompassing social policies that combine the complementary principles of targeting as the instrument and universality as the end.

Author : Joseph S. Tulchin,Allison M. Garland
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Ilán Bizberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031444203

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Four Worlds of the Welfare State in Latin America by Ilán Bizberg Pdf

Author : Michelle Dion
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822973638

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Workers and Welfare by Michelle Dion Pdf

After the revolutionary period of 1910-1920, Mexico developed a number of social protection programs to support workers in public and private sectors and to establish safeguards for the poor and the aged. These included pensions, healthcare, and worker's compensation. The new welfare programs were the product of a complex interrelationship of corporate, labor, and political actors. In this unique dynamic, cross-class coalitions maintained both an authoritarian regime and social protection system for some seventy years, despite the ebb and flow of political and economic tides. By focusing on organized labor, and its powerful role in effecting institutional change, Workers and Welfare chronicles the development and evolution of Mexican social insurance institutions in the twentieth century. Beginning with the antecedents of social insurance and the adoption of pension programs for central government workers in 1925, Dion's analysis shows how the labor movement, up until the 1990s, was instrumental in expanding welfare programs, but has since become largely ineffective. Despite stepped-up efforts, labor has seen the retrenchment of many benefits. Meanwhile, Dion cites the debt crisis, neoliberal reform, and resulting changes in the labor market as all contributing to a rise in poverty. Today, Mexican welfare programs emphasize poverty alleviation, in a marked shift away from social insurance benefits for the working class.

Author : Ian Gough,Geof Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521834198

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Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America by Ian Gough,Geof Wood Pdf

Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.