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Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families and Policies
(2008-06)
This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. ...
Working Paper 27: The Double Challenge of Market and Social Incorporation: Progress and Bottlenecks in Latin America
(2012)
Latin American countries have historically failed to secure market incorporation (e.g. people’s participation in the cash nexus, which in turn requires the creation of a sufficient number of formal well-paying jobs) and ...
Imploding and redrawing care regimes in Latin America: opportunities and challenges for women’s economic empowerment
(2021)
We provide an overview of the care regime in Latin America and its associated adaptive (market- and family-based) strategies available to women at the bottom and the top of the income distribution. In an effort to convey ...
Blacks, Whites, or Grays? Conditional Transfers and Gender Equality in Latin America
(2012-08-09)
Can poverty and gender relations be disentangled? Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread throughout Latin America and beyond based on the claim that they are an effective social policy tool to combat poverty. ...
¿Más allá de un estado de varias cabezas? La regulación de la paternidad en América Latina
Beyond a multi-headed state? The regulation of paternity in Latin America
(2019)
En América Latina, el Estado es básicamente árbitro, con frecuencia sesgado, de relaciones familiares asentadas en desigualdades de género y socioeconómicas. La falta de vínculo entre el derecho de familia y políticas ...
Who Cares in Nicaragua? A Care Regime in an Exclusionary Social Policy Context
(2011-09-14)
In Latin American countries with historically strong social policy regimes (such as those in the Southern Cone), neoliberal policies are usually blamed for the increased burden of female unpaid work. However, studying the ...
Transferencias condicionadas e igualdad de género: ¿blancos, negros o grises?
Blacks, whites or greys? Conditional transfers and gender equality
(2008)
¿En qué medida las transferencias condicionadas (TMC), programas “estrella” de la nueva generación de la política social latinoamericana, inhiben o promueven mayores grados de igualdad de género? Usando un instrumento ...
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 ...
Las transferencias monetarias de emergencia en Centroamérica: respuesta común en escenarios contrastantes
(2022-12)
Este artículo analiza las transferencias monetarias de emergencia creadas en Centroamérica, una región que desde antes de la pandemia experimentaba la peor combinación de desafíos económicos, sociales y políticos desde las ...