Conditional cash transfer programmes: the recent experience in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes Bibliography

Social policies and socioeconomic indicators for transitional economies

Includes bibliography

Social policies in transitional societies: is the Latin American experience useful?

Includes bibliography

Indicators for the assessment of social policies

Includes bibliography

Social policies in Costa Rica

Includes bibliography

Alternatives of social policies for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Eighties

Includes bibliography

Participation and concertation in social policies

Includes bibliography

Social policies in Costa Rica

Includes bibliography

Selectivity as the crux of social policies

Destaca el tema de la compensación social ante la crisis económica y los interrogantes vinculados a los límites entre asistencialismo y eficiencia de la inversión, la viabilidad de las políticas sociales en el corto plazo y los alcances de la expansión del sector informal en la región.

Conditional cash transfer programmes: experiences from Latin America

Includes bibliography

Reassessing social policies in Latin America: growth, middle classes and social rights

Includes bibliography

Alternatives of social policies for Latin America and the Caribbean in the eighties

Analiza las circunstancias especiales de los paises de America Latina y el Caribe y los problemas especificos que deben afrontar para lograr un equilibrio entre el crecimiento economico y el desarrollo social, asi como los cambios de politicas y sistemas gubernamentales que se requieren para alcanzar la justicia social.

Social policies in the nineties

Includes bibliography

Productivity, social expenditure and income distribution in Latin America

This paper discusses the role of institutions and structural change in shaping income inequality. It is argued that while social expenditure and direct redistribution are crucial for improving income distribution, sustainable equality requires structural change to create decent jobs. The relative importance of these variables in different countries is analyzed and a typology suggested. It is argued that the most equal countries in the world combine strong institutions in favor of redistribution and knowledge-intensive production structures that sustain growth and employment in the long run. Both institutions and the production structure in Latin America fail to foster equality and this explains its extremely high levels of inequality. The last decade witnessed significant advances in reducing inequality in Latin America, but these advances are threatened by slow productivity growth and weak structural change.