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Are governments catching up? Work-family policy and inequality in Latin America
(2015-09)
The position of women in Latin America has dramatically changed over the past two decades as millions have entered the labour force, often better educated than their male counterparts; family composition has changed; and ...
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 ...
Ver para creer: La información pública ciudadana en América Central. Un estudio desde la sociedad civil
(2003)
La investigación cuyos resultados se presentan a continuación son parte de ese esfuerzo. El estudio abordó un tema poco o nada explorado hasta el momento en América Central: el papel de la información pública en las ...
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 ...
¿Es posible (des)encadenar la desigualdad de género en América Latina?
(2009)
El papel de las mujeres y de las relaciones de género se ha instalado en el debate público sobre la política social en América Latina. El detonante han sido los programas de transferencias condicionadas (TMC): dinero a ...
Limits to Costa Rican Heterodoxy: What Has Changed in “Paradise”?
(2010)
Throughout the second half of the 1980s and the 1990s, the so-called "Central American Switzerland," maintained an admirable record of democratic elections, an unblemished record of human and civil rights, a reasonable ...
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 ...