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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 ...
The road to universal social protection: how Costa Rica informs theory
(2012-03)
How are universal social programs built in countries on the periphery, where resources are more limited and initial inequalities higher than any ever seen in OECD countries? Historically it has been very difficult, and ...
Incorporation and Regionalism in Latin America
(2014)
The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional ...
Should Policy Aim at Having All People on the Same Boat? The Definition, Relevance and Challenges of Universalism in Latin America
(2014)
In recent years, attention to universal social policy has intensified in Latin America
and other parts of the periphery. Definitions of universal social policy have traditionally
varied between a minimalist approach ...
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment: Class and Gender under the Pink Tide
(2017-12-26)
Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most ...
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 ...
Latin American capitalism: economic and social policy in transition
(2009)
During the last theree decades, and contrary to expectations, Latin Americas economis performace has been poor nad many of its structural weaknesses have deepened. Despite the recent eport commodity boom, the regions average ...
The limits of family and Community Care: Challenges for Public Policy in Nicaragua
(2012-06-22)
Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered ...