Citizen's income and welfare regimes in Latin America : from cash transfers to rights / edited by Rubén Lo Vuolo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lo Vuolo, Rubén M. (Rubén Mario)

Series:

Exploring the basic income guarantee

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Basic income--Latin America.

Income maintenance programs--Latin America.

Income maintenance programs.

Basic income.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context, progress towards a Citizen's Income policy in Latin America depends on the possibility of reappraising its importance for an integrated institutional system, which promotes the empowerment and economic independence of the people. A Citizen's Income policy is not only a cash transfer to alleviate poverty or a basic income for food. It is a basic right to improve democracy and encourage a more autonomous development of people living in profoundly unequal societies"-- Provided by publisher.

"Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context, progress towards a Citizen's Income policy in Latin America depends on the possibility of reappraising its importance for an integrated institutional system which promotes the empowerment and economic independence of people. A Citizen's Income policy is not only a cash transfer to alleviate poverty or a basic income for food. It is a basic right to improve democracy and encourage a more autonomous development of people living in profoundly unequal societies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction 1.Lo Vuolo, Rube;n.First Part: Citizen's Income and Cash Transfers2.Lavinas, Lena: Brazil: the lost road to citizen's income.3.Lo Vuolo, Rube;n: The Argentine 'Universal Child Allowance' for the unemployed and informal workers4.Arza, Camila: Basic pensions in Latin America: Towards a rights-based policy?5.Yanes, Pablo: Targeting and conditionalities in Mexico: the end of a cash transfer model?6.Krozer, Alice and Lo Vuolo, Rube;n: A Regional Citizen's Income to Reduce Poverty in Central America.Second Part: Citizen's Income and the Latin American Public Agenda7.Walterberg, Fabio: Are Latin Americans

Brazilians in Particular

Willing to Support an Unconditional Citizen's Income?8.Pribble, Jennifer: The Politics of Citizen Income Programs in Latin America: Policy Legacies and Party Character.9.Rodriguez Enriquez, Corina: Should Citizen's Income become a goal for feminism in Latin America?10.Haagh, Louise: Citizen's Income and Democratization in Latin America

A Multi-Institutional Perspective.11.Gargarella, Roberto: Citizen's Income and the material basis of the Constitution.Epilogue12.Lo Vuolo, Rube;n.

ISBN:

9780230338210

0230338216

OCLC:

769987216