Author : Juan Ponce
Publisher : Flacso-Sede Ecuador
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789978671825
Se discute desde un punto de vista teórico, los diferentes enfoques de la política social y se analiza el fenómeno de la migración.
Author : Santiago Levy Algazi
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Conditional cash transfer programs are based on a simple, yet powerful premise: creating adequate incentives today to stimulate the accumulation of human capital in poor families can provide future generations with the opportunity to generate their own higher incomes. Looking at the experience of Progresa-Oportunidades--the oldest such program whose results after 10 years provide valuable lessons--offers the opportunity to examine whether the youth of Progresa-Oportunidades, in a not too distant future, will be able to find productive jobs that allow them to escape the poverty that has trapped their parents. In this study, Santiago Levy looks at this question from an innovative perspective, analyzing how the intrinsic structure of incentives created by a set of social policies can aid or inhibit the achievement of the principal objective of Progresa-Oportunidades: to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. This study can help spark a discussion in many countries on the links between social policy, productivity growth and, in turn, poverty reduction.
Author : L. Haagh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2002-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230502687
This collection offers a critical analytical perspective and fresh empirical data on recent market-orientated social policy reforms in Latin America. The six case studies presented examine labour, education, health and general social development programmes. A particular focus is placed on the ways in which market-enhancing reforms such as demand-based provision, social policy targeting and privatization respond to issues of equity, coverage and the quality of provision.
Author : Merike Blofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009415999
In 2020, as Latin American countries shuttered their economies, it became clear that effective lockdowns would require states to provide income support. In a region that has historically struggled to build systems of social protection, the effort to expand benefits was notable. Policies varied in scope and generosity, but in what seemed to signify a new era of state-building, Latin American democracies demonstrated a nearly uniform commitment to providing assistance to the poor. Why did some countries implement broader and more adequate programs than others and why did countries vary in their ability to sustain support over time? This Element argues that three factors explain cross-national and cross-temporal differences in policy effort: policy legacies, unified/divided government, and fiscal space. The study shows that in settings of crisis, the democratic politics of social policy expansion shift, with traditional factors like ideology and electoral competition playing a less central role.
Author : Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0822977273
This timely volume brings together specialists on the reform of social security systems to analyze the similarities and differences of those health care and pension reforms that have taken place since the early 1990s and suggests possible gains through recent or contemplated revisions to those systems.
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0889367612
Social Policy in a Global Society: Parallels and lessons from the Canada-Latin America experience
Author : Carl Friedrich Bossert
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3966659980
Lateinamerika gilt als der ungleichste Kontinent der Welt. Paradoxerweise hat die Entwicklung ressourcenintensiver Sozialsysteme wenig dazu beigetragen, das soziale Ungleichgewicht zu verändern. Der Autor zeichnet dieses Paradox am Beispiel Argentiniens nach, deckt die zugrundeliegenden Macht- und Interessenskonflikte auf und stellt erfolgreiche Strategien zur Umsetzung einer integrativen Politik vor. Als erste Studie dieser Art untersucht sie systematisch die langfristige Entwicklung der sozialen Absicherung von Geringverdienern in Argentinien und analysiert die entscheidenden politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Einflussfaktoren.
Author : Nathan Glazer
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674534445
Many social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, designed to overcome poverty and provide a decent standard of living for all Americans, ran into trouble in the 1980s with politicians, with social scientists, and with the American people. Here Nathan Glazer looks back at what went wrong, arguing that our social policies, although targeted effectively on some problems, ignored others that are equally important. Glazer's knowledge and judgment, distilled in this book, will be a source of advice and wisdom for citizens and policymakers alike.
Author : Marco Aurélio Serau Junior
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 331927046X
This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.742, also known as Organic Law of Social Assistance. This collection of essays allows the reader to understand some important changes in social assistance policies in Brazil in recent years, having the General Theory of Social Security and the Human Rights as references. The tensions between economic principles and affirmative policies for the less advantaged parts of the society are also covered, showing how different interpretations of key concepts - like need, poverty or family - may have an important role on the exercise of fundamental rights.
Author : Sajid S.M.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030399664
This handbook addresses the issues and challenges of the delivery of social work education in the contemporary world. It provides an authoritative overview of the key debates, switching the lens away from a Western-centric focus to engage with a much broader audience in countries that are in the process of modernization and professionalization, alongside those where social work education is more developed. Chapters tackle major challenges with respect to curriculum, teaching, practice, and training in light of globalization, providing a thorough examination of the practice of social work in diverse contexts. This handbook presents a contribution to the process of knowledge exchange which is essential to global social work education. It brings together professional knowledge and lived experience, both universal and local, and aims to be an essential reference for social work educators, researchers, and students.
