Structural adjustment and the educational attainment of women in Latin America

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yassaman Saadatmand ◽  
Chris Paul
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Structural Adjustment

New Forms of Social Assistance and the Evolution of Social Protection in Latin America

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARMANDO BARRIENTOS ◽  
CLAUDIO SANTIBÁÑEZ
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Income Transfers ◽  
Lost Decade

AbstractThis article discusses the evolution of social protection in Latin America and proposes a conceptualisation and contextualisation of new forms of social assistance. It begins by outlining the main features of social protection prior to the ‘lost decade’ of the 1980s and the changes enforced by crises and structural adjustment. It then focuses on the new forms of social assistance emerging in the region, especially conditional and unconditional income transfers and integrated anti-poverty programmes. The article draws out their common features, identifies possible underlying conceptual frameworks, and places their introduction and evolution within the broader context of the new dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in the region.

Globalization and Labor: Reflections on Contemporary Latin America

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Hershberg
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

As the editors note in their introduction to this special issue of the journal, for more than 500 years, indeed since the conquest, Latin-American economies and societies have been profoundly affected by developments in the world system. Over the past century alone, watershed moments such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the oil shocks and international debt crisis of the 1970s and 80s, have rocked Latin-American economies, transforming development paradigms and with them the circumstances of the many millions who inhabit the region. Today, a quarter century has passed since Latin-American economies embarked, unevenly yet largely irreversibly, on the path of market-oriented reform. Designed to stimulate growth through insertion into global markets, structural adjustment programs swept Latin America in the wake of the debt crisis and were followed by a panoply of measures that sought an enduring restructuring of economies in the region. The pursuit of these so-called Washington Consensus policies did away with the inward-oriented strategies that had shaped development in the region throughout the postwar period. However reluctantly, Latin America staked its future on a renewed engagement with the world economy, and became a player in the highly contested processes of globalization that are reshaping societies and economies around much of the planet.

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