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Veinticinco años de cuidados en Nicaragua: poco estado, poco mercado, mucho trabajo no remunerado
(2012-07-24)
Este libro analiza la organización de los cuidados en Nicaragua y muestra cambios pero también continuidades paralelas a las profundas transformaciones económicas, sociales y políticas que experimentó el país durante los ...
Ver para creer: La información pública ciudadana en América Central. Un estudio desde la sociedad civil
(2003)
La investigación cuyos resultados se presentan a continuación son parte de ese esfuerzo. El estudio abordó un tema poco o nada explorado hasta el momento en América Central: el papel de la información pública en las ...
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas and Architectures
(2016)
Universal social policies have the power to reduce inequality and create more cohesive societies. How can countries in the South deliver universalism? This book answers this question through a comparative analysis of Costa ...
Good Jobs and Social Services: How Costa Rica achieved the elusive double incorporation
(2013)
Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services). This book reviews Costa Rica's experience as one of the few ...
Social Policy in Central America: Stubborn Legacies, Positive yet Limited
(2013)
Central America constitutes a fascinating case study of the challenges, opportunities and characteristics of the process of transformation in today’s global economy. Comprised of a politically diverse range of societies, ...
Limits to Costa Rican Heterodoxy: What Has Changed in “Paradise”?
(2010)
Throughout the second half of the 1980s and the 1990s, the so-called "Central American Switzerland," maintained an admirable record of democratic elections, an unblemished record of human and civil rights, a reasonable ...
The Double Challenge of Market and Social Incorporation: Progress and Bottlenecks in Latin America
(2014-04-07)
Has the past decade of sustained economic growth and political transformations reversed Latin America's historical failure to secure market and social incorporation? To address this question this article draws on the ...
Overcoming segmentation in Social Policy? Comparing New Early Education and Child Care Efforts in Costa Rica and Uruguay
(2018)
During the late 2000s, Early Child Education and Care (ECEC) became a policy priority for several Latin American countries. Coherent with international ideas yet against the legacy of deep-seated segmentation, the new ...