Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America [electronic resource] : From Cash Transfers to Rights /
Vuolo, Rubén Lo.editor.
Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context, progress toward a Citizen's Income policy in Latin America depends on the possibility of reappraising its importance for an integrated institutional system which promotes the empowerment and economic independence of people. A Citizen's Income policy is not only a cash transfer to alleviate poverty or a basic income for food. It is a basic right to improve democracy and encourage a more autonomous development of people living in profoundly unequal societies.
PART I -- Introduction: Basic Income in Latin America; R.L. Vuolo -- Welfare Regimes in Latin America; F. Filgueiras -- Constitutions and Social Rights in Latin America; R. Gargarella -- PART II: CURRENT POLICIES AND BI -- Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program and Basic Income; L. Lavinas -- Cash Transfers in Brazil: A Commodified or Decommodified Policy?; A. Sposati -- Argentina's Asignaci̤n Universal por Hijo para Protecci̤n Social; R.L. Vuolo -- Mexico's Oportunidades vs. Pensi̤n alimentaria; P. Yanes -- Basic Income in Central America; J.M. Franzoni -- Non-contributory Pension Programs; C. Arza -- Unemployment Insurance and Basic Income; L. Haag -- PART III: POLITICS -- Political Support for Redistribution; F. Waltenberg -- The Politics of Building Basic Income Programs in Latin America; J. Pribble -- Basic Income: a Goal for Feminism in Latin America?; C.R. Enriquez -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context, progress toward a Citizen's Income policy in Latin America depends on the possibility of reappraising its importance for an integrated institutional system which promotes the empowerment and economic independence of people. A Citizen's Income policy is not only a cash transfer to alleviate poverty or a basic income for food. It is a basic right to improve democracy and encourage a more autonomous development of people living in profoundly unequal societies.
International economics.
Urban economics.
Labor economics.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Economic theory.
Regional economics.
International Economics.
Urban Economics.
Labor Economics.
Latin American Culture.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Regional/Spatial Science.