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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 ...
Overcoming segmentation in Social Policy? Comparing New Early Education and Child Care Efforts in Costa Rica and Uruguay
(2018)
During the late 2000s, Early Child Education and Care (ECEC) became a policy priority for several Latin American countries. Coherent with international ideas yet against the legacy of deep-seated segmentation, the new ...
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 ...
Incorporation and Regionalism in Latin America
(2014)
The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...