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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 ...
Costa Rica
(2013)
This study on Beyond the Contributory Pension, Fourteen Latin American experiences has fifteen chapters, which discuss and analyze the various policy initiatives aimed at expanding public coverage beyond the contributory ...
Why and How to Build Universal Social Policy in the South
(2018-06-15)
In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of ...
¿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 ...
Mesa-Lago, Carmelo (2008): Reassembling social security: a survey of pensions and healthcare reforms in Latin America. Oxford University Press
(2009-12-02)
Pocas veces se encuentra una, frente a una obra en la que el mensaje reúne tantas virtudes como el mensajero. Carmelo Mesa-Lago es una eminencia en materia de seguridad social en América Latina y esta obra es dignísima ...
Paradigmas globales y filtros domésticos: las reformas administrativas de las políticas sociales en América Latina
(1998)
En las economías latinoamericanas se ha empezado a cambiar ciertas estructuras estatales que han hecho más ágiles los sistemas del Estado, y el área de salud no se ha quedado atrás. Romper paradigmas no es fácil e introducir ...