[EQ] FROM SOCIAL SAFETY NET TO SOCIAL POLICY?

de: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) : ruglucia@paho.org
para: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
fecha: 22 de enero de 2010 17:34
asunto: [EQ] From Social Safety Net to Social Policy?


From Social Safety Net to Social Policy?
The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America


Francesca Bastagli
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science
Working Paper number 60 December, 2009 -International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC - IG)
Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP


Available online PDF [35p.] at: http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper60.pdf



“…….During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, conditional cash transfers CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and inclusive set of social policies.

At the same time, particular conditional cash transfers CCT features risk promoting the further residualisation and fragmentation of safety nets. Drawing on the experience of six countries in Latin America, [Colombia – Chile - Honduras – Nicaragua - Brazil – Mexico] - this paper identifies the variations and recent trends in conditional cash transfers CCT design and implementation.

Based on this review, it considers the contribution of conditional cash transfers CCTs to the potential transition from a largely absent or minimal safety net to a coordinated system of social policies…”




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