ISBN:
9780230338210
Language:
English
Pages:
ca. 286 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Exploring the basic income guarantee
Parallel Title:
Print version Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America : From Cash Transfers to Rights
Keywords:
Ethnology Latin America
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Economic theory
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International economics
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Labor economics
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Regional economics
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Spatial economics
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Urban economics
Abstract:
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 toward 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
Abstract:
This book describes the Basic Income proposal as a model to reform policies of income transfers in Latin America. A study that covers many topics and many countries, looking back at both the genesis and support of current focalized and conditional programs and forward to see how and whether the BI proposal can be adapted for use in the region
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Citizen's Income and Cash Transfers; 1 Brazil: The Lost Road to Citizen's Income; 2 The Argentine "Universal Child Allowance": Not the Poor but the Unemployed and Informal Workers; 3 Targeting and Conditionalities in Mexico: The End of a Cash Transfer Model?; 4 Basic Pensions in Latin America: Toward a Rights-Based Policy?; 5 A Regional Citizen's Income to Reduce Poverty in Central America; Part II Citizen's Income and the Latin American Public Agenda
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Are Latin Americans-Brazilians in Particular-Willing to Support an Unconditional Citizen's Income?7 The Politics of Citizen's Income Programs in Latin America: Policy Legacies and Party Character; 8 Should Citizen's Income Become a Goal for Feminism in Latin America?; 9 Citizen's Income and Democratization in Latin America-A Multi-Institutional Perspective; 10 Citizen's Income and the Material Basis of the Constitution; Epilogue; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
DOI:
10.1057/9781137077547
URL:
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