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Are welfare regimes a useful category? The crosssectoral variation in social policy in Latin America at the end of the commodity boom
(2021-09)
The literature on welfare and social policy regimes often assumes that countries perform consistently across policy sectors. Is this assumption correct, particularly in the global South? Do countries that do well in a given ...
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 ...
Oportunidades perdidas pospandemia: transferencias y vacunación en El Salvador
Post pandemic lost opportunities: Transfers and vaccination in El Salvador
(2023-01)
Este artículo investiga si las respuestas a la pandemia implicaron oportunidades para crear y/o ampliar políticas sociales inclusivas en El Salvador, uno de los países latinoamericanos que destinó más recursos a enfrentarla. ...
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 ...
La construcción de universalismo y sus contradicciones: lecciones de los servicios de salud en Costa Rica, 1940-2011
Building universalism: Lessons from Costa Rica´s health services, 1940-2011
(2013)
Con frecuencia la construcción del universalismo se asimila pragmáticamente a coberturas masivas –aunque los beneficios sean segmentados—o al modelo nórdico basado en impuestos generales y servicios generosos para todos ...
¿Cómo alcanzó Costa Rica la incorporación social y laboral?
(2017)
En 1980, justo antes de la crisis de la deuda y en contraste con la experiencia del resto
de América Latina, prácticamente toda la población costarricense contaba con empleos
formales y servicios sociales de calidad. ...
Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom
(2018-09-02)
For all the agreement regarding the segmented character of Latin America's social policy, few studies define it clearly, let alone suggest exact ways to measure it. This article provides a more precise definition based on ...
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 ...
Can Latin American Production Regimes Complement Universalistic Welfare Regimes? Implications from the Costa Rican Case
(2013)
Much of the literature on political economy expects complementarities between (universal) welfare regimes and production regimes. This article draws from Costa Rica's showcase of human development and universalistic social ...