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This book analyses how social protection systems and welfare regimes are applied in contemporary Latin America, and how they can help promote development, and reduce poverty and inequality. This interdisciplinary volume will interest economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection.
List of contents
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 Institutions 5.
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 Protection 10. Cash Transfer Programs as a Means to Women Empowerment? The 'Oportunidades' Case In Tulancingo, Mexico (2002-2014) 11. The Future of Social Protection in Latin America in a Context of Accelerated Changes
About the author
Gibrán Cruz-Martínez is a Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.
Summary
This book analyses how social protection systems and welfare regimes are applied in contemporary Latin America, and how they can help promote development, and reduce poverty and inequality. This interdisciplinary volume will interest economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection.
