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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Sistemas de patriarcado y regímenes de bienestar en América Latina ¿Una cosa lleva a la otra?
(2009)
Aunque la desigualdad latinoamericana precede la liberalización económica, ésta claramente la acentuó: las nuevas formas de crecimiento han aumentado la polarización social; las reformas del Estado han reducido sus capacidades ...
A diagonal and social protection plus approach to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 syndemic: cash transfers and intimate partner violence interventions in Latin America
(2021-11-24)
Latin America has been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 syndemic, including the associated economic fallout that has threatened the livelihoods of most families. Social protection platforms and policies should have a ...
Leave policy across Latin America: a story of expansion, plateauing and the need for unconventional instruments
(2022-12)
This chapter presents an analytical model that, based on the contribution of parenting leave studies for European countries and typologies created to analyse welfare and care policies for Latin America, enables us to ...
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 ...
Growth to Limits of Female Labor Participation in Latin America’s Unequal Care Regime
(2019)
Throughout Latin America, legal barriers enabling women to make a living equal to men are largely gone. However, women continue to lag behind men in gaining access to economic resources, and women’s labor participation ...
A long decade of gendering social policy in Latin America: transformative steps and inequality traps
(2018-09-28)
Did recent social policy expansion entail positive changes for women and for gender equality in Latin America? This chapter argues that, overall, this expansion brought good news for women’s visibility as subjects of policy ...