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Synopsis
Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risk, raise household income, and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse how social protection systems and welfare regimes are applied in contemporary Latin America. Starting with a historical and theoretical discussion, the book goes on to explore how national and global actors and institutions shape social policy in the region, and how political and academic debates on social protection are developing.
The book touches on key topics such as Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes, trade union inclusionary strategies, universal basic income, state-led verus market-led welfare provision, and different poverty reduction strategies. Throughout the book the contributors ask how social policy can help to promote development, and to reduce poverty and inequality. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians with an interest in social protection in Latin America.