Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaTHE QUEST FOR A NEW WELFARE SAFETY NET IN LATIN AMERICA
In two decades, a process of democratization occurred in Latin America, leading tonew public policies that have helped reduce inequality and poverty. Government programs hadbeen set up for that purpose, in a first stage through conditional cash transfer programs, and ina second stage through income...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Universidade de São Paulo - Programa de Pós-graduação em Integração da América Latina
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/prolam/article/view/83009 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/22614 |
| Sumario: | In two decades, a process of democratization occurred in Latin America, leading tonew public policies that have helped reduce inequality and poverty. Government programs hadbeen set up for that purpose, in a first stage through conditional cash transfer programs, and ina second stage through income policies to wage adjustment. Not all the countries followed thesepolicies, therefore, the paper explores in a counterfactual analysis, the trends that have emergedfrom these reforms and how they have reshaped the welfare systems of Brazil, Argentina, Chile,Colombia and Mexico. |
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