Citizen s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America: From Cash Transfers to Rights

Lo Vuolo, Rubén (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1349341207 / ISBN 13: 9781349341207

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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275 pages. 8.50x5.51x0.65 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Citizen s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America: From Cash Transfers to Rights
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349341207
• ISBN 13: 9781349341207
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.34 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Lena Lavinas Camila Arza Pablo Yanes Alice Krozer Fabio Walterberg Jennifer Pribble Corina Rodriguez Enriquez Louise Haagh Roberto Gargarella