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Munck, Ronaldo

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“…The balanced representation of financial and labor entities demonstrates that, in contrast with Brazil’s, Argentine unionism is an essential actor, reinforced by its affinity with the Peronist government. The unions of the main workers’ confederation, the Confederación General del Trabajo (General Confederation of Labor—CGT), have monopoly representation by activity (Munck, 2004) and control its members’ health care benefits, among other services. After the regression of the 1990s, a “union revitalization” occurred in the new century (Gamallo, 2020), and today Argentine union density and the extent of collective bargaining are the highest in Latin America (Table 1).…”

Section: The Argentine Councilmentioning

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Institutionalizing Populist Power Coalitions in Latin America: Argentina’s Economic and Social Council and Brazil’s Council for Economic and Social Development

von-Zeschau,

Sánchez-Mosquera

2023

Latin American Perspectives

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The Argentine Consejo Económico y Social (Economic and Social Council) and the Brazilian Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Council for Economic and Social Development) are institutions promoted by populist governments to shape a neodevelopmentalist agenda in countries classified as having hierarchical market economies. Both councils only partially conform to the hierarachical market economy model and have suffered from heavy governmental dependence, but Argentine unionism may constitute a potential success factor for the institution in the future. This influence represents an exception to the theory of these economies. El Consejo Económico y Social de Argentina y el Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social de Brasil son instituciones promovidas por gobiernos populistas para dar pie a una agenda neodesarrollista en países clasificados como de economías de mercado jerárquicas. Ambos consejos se ajustan sólo parcialmente al modelo jerárquico de la economía de mercado y han sufrido una fuerte dependencia gubernamental. Sin embargo, el sindicalismo argentino podría constituir un potencial factor de éxito para la institución en el futuro. Dicha influencia constituye una excepción a la teoría de estas economías.

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Section: The Argentine Councilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutionalizing Populist Power Coalitions in Latin America: Argentina’s Economic and Social Council and Brazil’s Council for Economic and Social Development

von-Zeschau,

Sánchez-Mosquera

2023

Latin American Perspectives

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“…Another important factor that has increased gender bias in terms of accessing the right to health is the growth in informal work and accompanying lack of social protection attached to this work. This trend is of course not confined to Chile; an International Labour Office study suggests that during the 1990s eighty‐four out of every one hundred jobs created in Latin America were in the informal economy (Munck, 2004). While gender disaggregated data of the number of women and men in the informal economy have not been located for Chile, research does suggest that women are more likely than men to be employed in the informal economy.…”

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Entitled to Health? Social Protection in Chile's Plan AUGE

Dannreuther¹,

Gideon²

2008

Development and Change

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In theory everyone has the right to health. However, in reality many low income households are unable to fully access health services and therefore cannot fully claim their rights. Recently, in an attempt to overcome these limitations, health reforms in Chile under the Plan AUGE have proposed a series of legal entitlements to health care that are available to everyone regardless of income level. While this is an important starting point in ensuring more universal access to health, the process has raised a number of important issues, particularly on how these entitlements have been defined and how far they will be able to transform (gender) inequalities within the health system. Looking at this from a gender perspective enables us to see that despite the shift from a health care system based on redistributive rights towards one based on the right of recognition, certain sectors of the population remain excluded. Decision‐making processes have remained technocratic, and women's groups have been marginalized from the debate around the reform. Moreover, health policy makers continue to ignore the role of the unpaid care economy in health care provision. The current reform has served to reinforce the gender roles around health care.

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“…As a consequence there has been an unprecedented expansion of the informal economy in recent years 3 . An International Labour Office (ILO) study estimated that 84 out of every 100 jobs created in Latin America during the 1990s were in the informal sector (Munck, 2004: 5). Governments often fail to acknowledge the social outcomes of such policies in terms of poverty and gender inequality and fail to initiate safety nets of unemployment compensation schemes (UNIFEM, 2005).…”

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Excluded from Health? Informal Workers’ Access to Health Care in Chile

Gideon

2007

Bull Latin American Res

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The Pan American Health Organisation recently highlighted the increased exclusion of low income households in Latin America from health care. The rise in informal employment and sub-contracting of workers means that many employees lack formal contracts and are excluded from health insurance programmes. Feminist research suggests low income women are often most at risk of exclusion. Simultaneously, deeply entrenched inequalities within health systems across the region have not been addressed by health sector reforms. Drawing on the case of Chile, this paper examines the extent to which informal workers have indeed been excluded and how far these processes are gendered.

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Abstract: and a participating editor of Latin American Perspectives. His forthcoming book Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective launches a series entitled Transforming Globalization with Kumarian Press. The collective thanks him for organizing this issue.

Cited by 16 publications

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Institutionalizing Populist Power Coalitions in Latin America: Argentina’s Economic and Social Council and Brazil’s Council for Economic and Social Development

Institutionalizing Populist Power Coalitions in Latin America: Argentina’s Economic and Social Council and Brazil’s Council for Economic and Social Development

Entitled to Health? Social Protection in Chile's Plan AUGE

Excluded from Health? Informal Workers’ Access to Health Care in Chile

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