On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America

Barrientos, Armando

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198701804.003.0016

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“…For example, health care is segmented when there are institutionally separated social insurance and social assistance programs. This is clearly how Barrientos (, p. 14) uses the term when he argues that “the spread of social assistance might have reduced the truncated nature of social protection, but this has been achieved by exacerbating segmentation. In most countries, social assistance is being institutionalized separately from social insurance”.…”

Section: The Meaning Of Segmentationmentioning

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Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom

Franzoni

Sánchez‐Ancochea

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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For all the agreement regarding the segmented character of Latin America's social policy, few studies define it clearly, let alone suggest exact ways to measure it. This article provides a more precise definition based on a threefold policy output comprising coverage, generosity, and equity. Empirically, the article explores the cross‐national variation in segmentation in health care within Latin America in 2000 and 2013, before and after Latin America's economic boom. The article clusters countries, evaluates which ones improved their relative position during the 2000s, and determines the overall level of segmentation in the region. Findings are twofold. First, we identify three clusters: countries that respectively do particularly well and poorly across policy dimensions in 2000 and 2013, and a smaller set of countries that improved significantly, particularly regarding coverage and generosity. Second, despite cross‐national differences, there are shared regional challenges—the risk of catastrophic expenditure being a case in point. Our analysis demonstrates the need to move beyond coverage as a policy goal and pay more attention to gaps in generosity in every country. We also call for better indicators to measure performance beyond coverage across countries, and more studies that explain the similarities and differences between countries that improved considerably during the 2000s.

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Section: The Meaning Of Segmentationmentioning

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Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom

Franzoni

Sánchez‐Ancochea

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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“…Both economies are strongly dependent on natural resource exploitation and have seen high growth rates during the time of high commodity prices that coincided with a sharp increase in inequality at the end of the 20th century (Williamson, 2010). From the early 2000s, growing public discontent with what was referred to as the 'social debt' of the previous decades (Barrientos, 2014) led to a stronger focus on poverty reduction and an expansion of social protection in both countries. Particularly in Peru, the boom in the commodity sector facilitated pro-poor growth driven by an expanding services sector and high consumer spending starting in the early years of this century (Bank, 2016).…”

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More Educated, Less Mobile? Diverging Trends in Income and Educational Mobility in Chile and Peru

Gaentzsch

Roman

2018

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We analyse intergenerational persistence in income and education in Chile and Peru for birth cohorts of the early 1950s to 1990. Both countries have seen a structural expansion of education over this period and decreasing income inequality in recent decades. We impute non-observed parental income from repeated cross-sections and estimate persistence in the range of 0.63 to 0.67 in Peru and 0.66 to 0.76 in Chile for household heads of the birth cohorts 1977-90. The analysis of educational mobility covers household heads of birth cohorts from 1953 to 1990 and relies on retrospective information. We observe an increase in absolute mobility for younger generations, which we relate to the structural expansion of education that created room at the top. In relative terms, mobility patterns remain more stableparental education is still a strong predictor of children's educational achievement. The relationship is non-linear in both countries: persistence among very poorly and highly educated groups is strong, while individuals with parents of average education levels are more mobile. Upward mobility is stronger in Peru than in Chile: the chances to move from no formal education to higher education across one generation are 46% of the average in Peru compared to 20% in Chile. The chances of persisting in the top across generations are also slightly higher in Peru, with a factor of three times the average compared to 2.76 in Chile.

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“…La región latinoamericana presenta un sistema de asistencia social truncado debido a que las altas tasas de informalidad y precariedad dejan sin cobertura a un gran número de trabajadores que queda excluido del régimen de la seguridad social (Barrientos, 2011). En el 2013, el 47% de los trabajadores de América Latina y el Caribe se desarrolla dentro de la economía informal, ya sea por tener un empleo precario o por realizar sus actividades dentro del sector informal (OIT, 2013).…”

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¿La condicionalidad como nuevo paradigma de política social en América Latina?

Brown¹,

Pérez²

2016

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ResumenEn las últimas décadas se ha generalizado un proceso de reconfiguración de la protección social -workfare-que consiste en una nueva forma de gestionar los riesgos sociales que promueve el autoabastecimiento, el individualismo y la autorresponsabilidad. Estas modificaciones tuvieron su correlato en la implementación de políticas sociales y de empleo basada en necesidades perentorias y demostrables que requieren algún tipo de contraprestación. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar qué características adopta en América Latina esta reconfiguración del sistema de protección social haciendo énfasis en los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas (PTMC), cuál es la relación entre la reconfiguración del sistema de protección social y los PTMC, qué diagnóstico está detrás del consenso en la aplicación de estos programas y si todos los PTMC apuntan a un mismo * Artículo recibido el 22 de febrero de 2016. Aceptado el 10 de julio de 2016. 2 problema social. Estos son los interrogantes que guían el presente artículo. Palabras claveProtección social, workfare, programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas. AbstractIn recent decades there has been widespread a process of reconfiguration of social protection (workfare) which is a new way to manage social risks that promotes self-sufficiency, individualism and self-reliance. These changes were mirrored in the implementation of social and labor market policies which supply monetary benefits as long as recipients can demonstrate that they have met certain conditions. This article aims to analyze what features adopted in Latin America this reconfiguration of social protection system with emphasis on Conditional Cash Transfer Program (CCTP). What is the relationship between the reconfiguration of social protection system and CCTP? Which is the diagnosis behind the consensus in implementing this kind of programs? Do all CCTP point to the same social problem? These questions guide this article. KeywordsSocial protection-workfare-Conditional Cash Transfer Program. IntroducciónEl comienzo de siglo se caracterizó en América Latina por la llegada al gobierno de propuestas que cuestionaron las ideas neoliberales de los años noventa. En líneas generales se puede observar que se promovió el crecimiento del producto y el empleo De Prácticas y discursos/ Universidad Nacional del Nordeste/ Centro de Estudios Sociales Año 5, Número 6, 2016 (Enero -Julio)

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On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom

Undoing segmentation? Latin American health care policy during the economic boom

More Educated, Less Mobile? Diverging Trends in Income and Educational Mobility in Chile and Peru

¿La condicionalidad como nuevo paradigma de política social en América Latina?

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