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The Best Laid Schemes ... Gang Aft A-gley: Judicial Reform in Latin America – Evidence from Costa Rica
(2004-08-05)Starting in the 1980s, and accelerating through the 1990s, international financial institutions (IFIs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development agencies funnelled considerable resources into judicial reform ... -
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment: Class and Gender under the Pink Tide
(2017-12-26)Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most ... -
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 ... -
The General Election in Costa Rica, February 2010
(2011-03)On 7 February 2010, almost 2 million Costa Ricans (69% of the registered electorate) voted in the country’s general election, the fifteenth consecutive general election to be held since the end of the short but bloody civil ... -
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 ... -
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas and Architectures
(2016)Universal social policies have the power to reduce inequality and create more cohesive societies. How can countries in the South deliver universalism? This book answers this question through a comparative analysis of Costa ... -
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 ... -
The role of distributional coalitions in welfare regimes: Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
(2009-07-05)Do social policies in Latin America promote or discourage distribution? And if they do promote distribution, are coalitions a prerequisite? Drawing from a typology of welfare regimes elaborated for 18 Latin American ... -
Towards a global universal basic income for children
(2022-03)Our policy brief directly addresses Germany’s G-7 priority of tackling issues of “particular global urgency .... to achieve tangible improvements for the people – within G7 countries and beyond, especially in newly ... -
Trabajo, familia y cambios en la política pública en América Latina: equidad, maternalismo y corresponsabilidad
(2014-12)Teniendo como telón de fondo el aumento sustantivo de la participación laboral femenina en toda la región latinoamericana, en este artículo se caracterizan las políticas adoptadas para conciliar la vida familiar y laboral ... -
Transferencias condicionadas e igualdad de género: ¿blancos, negros o grises?
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Transformación en la prestación de servicios de salud como parte de la reforma sanitaria, un análisis neoinstitucional: el caso de Puerto Rico en el período 1993-2020
(2020)En el año 1993, comenzó la implementación de la reforma del sistema de salud en Puerto Rico, a través de la Ley 72-1993. Esta reforma se inscribe en un contexto en el cual las políticas estaban fuertemente influenciadas ... -
Tras las promesas de la Modernidad. Geopolítica del conocimiento y periferias agroproductivas: La Pampa argentina de la Conquista del Desierto (1869) a la revolución agro-biotecnológica (2015)
(2019)La investigación que se presenta pretende identificar y trabajar sobre puentes de sentidos, de significaciones transdisciplinares. Busca establecer correspondencias entre epistemología y patrones de poder de la Modernidad, ... -
Trayectoria política del cambio constitucional en Costa Rica: análisis para la década de 2000 al 2010
(2023)Desde 1949, año de entrada en vigencia de la actual Constitución Política en Costa Rica, el país ha atestiguado variaciones sobre diversos componentes del sistema político, así como una evolución de la comunidad social que ... -
Understanding the State Regulation of Fatherhood in Latin America: Complementary versus Co-responsible
(2021)Fatherhood is a key but missing component of research on welfare regimes. What do states formally demand from fatherhood across Latin America? Using a novel data set of coded legal and policy provisions for 19 Latin American ... -
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 ... -
Veinticinco años de cuidados en Nicaragua: poco estado, poco mercado, mucho trabajo no remunerado
(2012-07-24)Este libro analiza la organización de los cuidados en Nicaragua y muestra cambios pero también continuidades paralelas a las profundas transformaciones económicas, sociales y políticas que experimentó el país durante los ...