The Welfare State in Emerging-Market Economies: With Case Studies from Latin America, Eastern-Central Europe, and Asia

Quality of services and quality of life from service providers' perspectives: analysis with focus groups

“…In Chile, disability is found to increase the probability of being poor by 3–4% (WHO 2011). In other words, the Chilean welfare state has failed the very poor (Aspalter 2003). An additional challenge concerns the need to improve professional training and parents' implication in the educational process, as well as developing quality indicators (Zondek et al .…”

Education and Learning in the 21st Century: An Emergency Agenda for Sustainable Development

“…In this subject, Brazil and most of Latin America and Caribbean have lived roughly the same difficulties as nation like Nigeria, South Africa and other developing countries: lack of qualified ICT staff, cost of equipment and mainly non-inclusion of ICT programs in all levels of teachers' training (Kwache, 2007;Brunner, 2004;Lopez Segrera, 2007). Many studies claim that the model of economic progress that brought comfort and welfare state in developed countries of Europe and North America, which have been exported to developing countries like Brazil, Russian, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), is not possible for the entire population of the planet (Meadows et al, 1972 and1992;United Nations, 1997;Aspalter, 2003). If the conferences of United Nations of the last 40 years have not achieved their goals yet, at least they highlighted that world economic and its social basis are not sustainable; especially if we considered that we going to live in a planet where the population is expected to be about 10 billion by the year 2050 (United Nations, 2010).…”