Desmitificación y nuevos mitos sobre la pobreza
Author : Miguel Székely
Publisher : CIESAS
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poor
ISBN : 9789707016712
Author : Miguel Székely
Publisher : CIESAS
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poor
ISBN : 9789707016712
Author : Mary Jo Bane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674035379
Examines poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Shows that poverty has different roots and different manifestations, and requires different responses. After setting the context of poverty and place, focuses on three areas of policy response: macroeconomic policy, education policy, and safety nets.
Author : Mariano Rojas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401772037
This book presents original happiness research from and about a region that shows unexpectedly high levels of happiness. Even when Latin American countries cannot be classified as high-income countries their population do enjoy, on average, high happiness levels. The book draws attention to some important factors that contribute to the happiness of people, such as: relational values, human relations, solidarity networks, the role of the family, and the availability and gratifying using of leisure time. In a world where happiness is acquiring greater relevance as a final social and personal aim both the academic community and the social-actors and policy-makers community would benefit from Happiness Research in Latin America.
Author : Hugo Ceron-Anaya
Publisher : Global and Comparative Ethnogr
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190931604
"A Game of Privilege is a book about social inequalities and privilege in today's Mexico. Based on ethnographic research conducted in upscale golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, this book reverses the analysis of inequalities by focusing on privilege. Using rich qualitative data, the book examines how social hierarchies are relations produced through a multitude of everyday practices. A Game of Privilege not only analyses class but also explores how racial and gender dynamics reaffirm social hierarchies. This novel approach is combined with a space-sensitive perspective, showing how spatial dynamics underpin the reproduction of privilege"--
Author : Santiago Levy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815701632
Despite various reform efforts, Mexico has experienced economic stability but little growth. Today more than half of all Mexican workers are employed informally, and one out of every four is poor. Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes argues that incoherent social programs significantly contribute to this state of affairs and it suggests reforms to improve the situation. Over the past decade, Mexico has channeled an increasing number of resources into subsidizing the creation of low-productivity, informal jobs. These social programs have hampered growth, fostered illegality, and provided erratic protection to workers, trapping many in poverty. Informality has boxed Mexico into a dilemma: provide benefits to informal workers at the expense of lower growth and reduced productivity or leave millions of workers without benefits. Former finance official Santiago Levy proposes how to convert the existing system of social security for formal workers into universal social entitlements. He advocates eliminating wage-based social security contributions and raising consumption taxes on higher-income households to simultaneously increase the rate of growth of GDP, reduce inequality, and improve benefits for workers. Go od Intentions, Bad Outcomes considers whether Mexico can build on the success of Progresa-Oportunidades, a targeted poverty alleviation program that originated in Mexico and has been replicated in over 25 countries as well as in New York City. It sets forth a plan to reform social and economic policy, an essential element of a more equitable and sustainable development strategy for Mexico.
Author : Laís Wendel Abramo
Publisher : UN
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Diverse social programmes --including conditional cash transfer programmes, labour and production inclusion programmes and social pensions--are being implemented in Latin American and Caribbean countries with the aim of ending poverty and reducing inequalities throughout the life cycle. This book offers an up-to-date analysis of these programmes and the way they relate to labour inclusion, and analyses ongoing debates regarding the possible incentives and disincentives they create in terms of the labour supply, formalization and child labour among the target population. Considering that poverty is a structural problem of highly unequal societies, the thesis that poverty is due to a lack of effort on the part of the poor is argued to be an expression of the strong prejudice against those living in poverty, the great majority of whom work or are actively seeking employment, but are hampered by the large decent work deficits existing in the region. From an integrated and rights-based perspective, public policies should simultaneously address the twofold challenge of social and labour inclusion in order to achieve basic thresholds of well-being by ensuring income, universal access to good-quality social services and opportunities for decent work.
Author : Araceli Ortega Díaz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839824743
What progress has been made to achieve SDG5? Bridging the academic and policymaking spaces, this edited collection offers a critical insight and evaluation of the public policies targeted at improving the condition of women living in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Araceli Ortega Díaz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839824727
What progress has been made to achieve SDG5? Bridging the academic and policymaking spaces, this edited collection offers a critical insight and evaluation of the public policies targeted at improving the condition of women living in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Author : Jose Manuel Losada
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 3832549668
Our aim is to understand if myth has been directly affected by the digital revolution and to what extent it has retained its original essence or whether it has mutated to new forms. These articles tackle films and television series that devote a considerable part to the impact of transcendence in our lives. They show that myth continues to be a particularly suitable tool for the knowledge of our society and of ourselves.