“Who is Going to Take Care of Me?” Care and Ageing in Cuba: a Social Policy Challenge

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Blandine Destremau
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Challenge

scholarly journals Latin America's Social Policy Challenge: Education, Social Insurance, Redistribution

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Levy ◽  
Norbert Schady
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
High Inflation ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Challenge Education

Long regarded as a region beset by macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and excessive poverty and inequality, Latin America has undergone a major transformation over the last 20 years. The region has seen improved macroeconomic management and substantial and sustained reductions in poverty and inequality. In this paper, we argue that social policy, including human capital and education, social insurance, and redistribution, need special attention if achievements of the last two decades are to be sustained and amplified. Starting in the mid 1990s, many governments in the region introduced a variety of programs, including noncontributory pensions and health insurance, and cash transfers targeted to the poor. Social spending in Latin America increased sharply. These policies have been widely praised, and we believe they have resulted in substantial improvements in the lives of the poor in the region. However, a more nuanced view shows some worrisome trends. Moving forward, we believe it is necessary to pay much closer attention to the quality of services, particularly in education; to the incentives generated by the interplay of some programs, particularly in the labor market; to a more balanced intertemporal distribution of benefits, particularly between young and old; and to sustainable sources of finance, particularly to the link between contributions and benefits.

Joint Approaches to Social Policy

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Challis ◽  
Susan Fuller ◽  
Melanie Henwood ◽  
Rudolf Klein ◽  
William Plowden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy

How to influence social policy affecting children and families.

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Zigler ◽  
Susan Muenchow
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Children And Families
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