Exclusion and engagement : social policy in Latin America / edited by Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, c2002.
Description
xxvi, 503 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Includes bibliographic references (p. [411]-503).
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • pt. A: Concepts, models and practice
    • Exclusion and engagement: a diagnosis of social policy in Latin America in the long run / Christopher Abel, Colin M. Lewis
    • Social policy delivery: the new economic model and the reform of the state / Pascal Gerstenfeld
    • Debates on the effects of macroeconomic policy on poverty / Miguel Urrutia
    • Despite the odds: the political economy of social sector reform in Latin America / Merilee S. Grindle
    • Citizenship, social policy and population change / Bryan R. Roberts
    • Some conceptual and substantive limitations of contemporary western (global) discourses of rights and social justice / John Gledhill
    • pt. B: Health and social security
    • Globalisation, equity and health in Latin America / Antonio Ugalde, Nuria Homedes, Anthony Zwi
    • Health, equity and social exclusion in Argentina and Mexico / Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
    • Intergenerational transfers in income, health and social security: the experiences of Brazil, Mexico and Columbia / Maria Cristina Gomes de Conceição
    • Ideology and the new social security in the Argentine / Rubén M. Lo Vuolo
    • Gender relations and social security in Southern Brazil / Anita Brumer
    • pt. C: Education
    • Ideology and education: equity and efficiency / Marcial Bóo
    • Education reform in Latin America: decentralisation or restructuring / Andrew Nickson
    • Paradoxes of Chilean education reform, 1989-2000 / Ernesto Schiefelbein, Paulina Schiefelbein
    • pt. D: Household and community
    • Housing policy and legal entitlements: survival strategies of the urban poor / Alan Gilbert
    • Cuba: the retreat from entitlement? / Claes Brundenius
    • Whose crisis?: public and popular reactions to family change in Costa Rica / Sylvia Chant
    • Rural poverty and policy: Mexico and Colombia compared / Alicia Puyana.
    Other title(s)
    Exclusion & engagement
    ISBN
    1900039508 (pbk.)
    OCLC
    49834516
    RCP
    H - S
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