Welfare and social protection in contemporary Latin America / edited by Gibrán Cruz-Martínez.
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 ac...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Latin American development.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Social policy and welfare regimes in contemporary Latin America; 1 Comparative social policy in contemporary Latin America: concepts, theories and a research agenda; 2 Welfare regimes in Latin America: thirty years of social reforms and conflicting paradigms; 3 Social protection in Latin America: one region, two systems; 4 The reforms of welfare regimes at the turn of the century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay.
- Part II Politics of social protection in Latin America: stakeholders and institutions5 Making foreign: legal identity, social policy and the contours of belonging in the contemporary Dominican Republic; 6 Trade unions, strategies and the expansion of pension systems: the cases of Argentina and Uruguay; 7 Domestication of global policy norms: problematisation of the conditional cash transfer narrative; 8 Social dimensions of the EU-Colombia free trade agreement; Part III Contemporary debates in Latin American social policy.
- 9 Private welfare provision in rural Bolivia: contrasting visions of social protection10 Cash transfer programmes as a means to women's empowerment? The Oportunidades case in Tulancingo, Mexico (2002-2014); 11 The future of social protection in Latin America in a context of accelerated changes; Index.