Exclusion and Engagement

by Abel, Christopher; Lewis, Colin M.; Lewis, Colin M.; Abel, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781900039505
• ISBN10: 1900039508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Inst of Latin Amer Studies

Summary

This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections --Concepts, Models and Practice; Health and Social Security; Education; and Household and Community --the book explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of it's performing a new and more dynamic role. The authors place contemporary social policy in historical perspective, study the connection between growth and welfare, and consider the efficacy of the state in the social sphere from both macro and micro perspectives. Underpinning the collection are issues relating to the question of the social contract between state and citizen and how the exercise of citizenship connects society and state.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
List of Tables	xv
List of Figures	xvii
Acknowledgements	xix
Preface	xxi
PART A: CONCEPTS, MODELS AND PRACTICE
Exclusion and Engagement: a Diagnosis of Social Policy in Latin America in the Long Run	3	(51)
Christopher Abel
Colin M. Lewis
Social Policy Delivery: the New Economic Model and the Reform of the State	54	(18)
Pascual Gerstenfeld
Debates on the Effects of Macroeconomic Policy on Poverty	72	(11)
Miguel Urrutia
Despite the Odds: the Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America	83	(28)
Merilee S. Grindle
Citizenship, Social Policy and Population Change	111	(20)
Bryan R. Roberts
Some Conceptual and Substantive Limitations of Contemporary Western (Global) Discourses of Rights and Social Justice	131	(20)
John Gledhill
PART B: HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Globalisation, Equity and Health in Latin America	151	(21)
Antonio Ugalde
Nuria Homedes
Anthony Zwi
Health, Equity and Social Exclusion in Argentina and Mexico	172	(17)
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Intergenerational Transfers in Income, Health and Social Security: the Experiences of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia	189	(19)
Maria Cristina Gomes de Conceicao
Ideology and the New Social Security in the Argentine	208	(16)
Ruben M. Lo Vuolo
Gender Relations and Social Security in Southern Brazil	224	(21)
Anita Brumer
PART C: EDUCATION
Ideology and Education: Equity and Efficiency	245	(21)
Marcial Boo
Education Reform in Latin America: Decentralisation or Restructuring	266	(19)
Andrew Nickson
Paradoxes of Chilean Education Reform, 1989-2000	285	(18)
Ernesto Schiefelbein
Paulina Schiefelbein
PART D: HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY
Housing Policy and Legal Entitlements: Survival Strategies of the Urban Poor	303	(28)
Alan Gilbert
Cuba: the Retreat from Entitlement?	331	(18)
Claes Brundenius
Whose Crisis?: Public and Popular Reactions to Family Change in Costa Rica	349	(29)
Sylvia Chant
Rural Poverty and Policy: Mexico and Colombia Compared	378	(33)
Alicia Puyana
Bibliography	411