Citizen's income and welfare regimes in Latin America
Subtitle: from cash transfers to rights
By: edited by Rubén Lo Vuolo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780230338210
Subjects: Income maintenance programs; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional; Guaranteed annual income; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory
Description: "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 towards 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 the 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"--

"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 towards 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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction 1.Lo Vuolo, Rube;n.First Part: Citizen's Income and Cash Transfers2.Lavinas, Lena: Brazil: the lost road to citizen's income.3.Lo Vuolo, Rube;n: The Argentine 'Universal Child Allowance' for the unemployed and informal workers4.Arza, Camila: Basic pensions in Latin America: Towards a rights-based policy?5.Yanes, Pablo: Targeting and conditionalities in Mexico: the end of a cash transfer model?6.Krozer, Alice and Lo Vuolo, Rube;n: A Regional Citizen's Income to Reduce Poverty in Central America.Second Part: Citizen's Income and the Latin American Public Agenda7.Walterberg, Fabio: Are Latin Americans - Brazilians in Particular - Willing to Support an Unconditional Citizen's Income?8.Pribble, Jennifer: The Politics of Citizen Income Programs in Latin America: Policy Legacies and Party Character.9.Rodriguez Enriquez, Corina: Should Citizen&#180;s Income become a goal for feminism in Latin America?10.Haagh, Louise: Citizen's Income and Democratization in Latin America - A Multi-Institutional Perspective.11.Gargarella, Roberto: Citizen's Income and the material basis of the Constitution.Epilogue12.Lo Vuolo, Rube;n.