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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Filling the missing link between universalism and democracy: the case of Costa Rica
(2014)
This article explores a missing link in the recent literature on the formation of social policies: that between democracy and universalism, one desirable yet elusive feature of these policies. We base our argument on a ...
Cómo construir universalismo y cómo entender sus contradicciones: lecciones del caso costarricense, 1940-2018
(2019)
La publicación se estructuró en tres capítulos. En el primero de ellos, se abordan diversas perspectivas del Modelo Social Europeo pasando desde premisas ideologías y aspectos relevantes de su surgimiento hasta la actualidad ...
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 ...
A Lost Opportunity for Progressive Redistributionto Build Social Protection for All? Scenarios following emergency cash transfers in Central America
(2022-01-28)
The need for these policies is particularly urgent in Latin America, a region where policy responses to the pandemic, such as lockdowns and mobility restrictions to prevent the spread of the virus, immediately turned into ...
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 ...
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 ...