Citizen's Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America: From Cash Transfers to Rights (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)

✍ Scribed by Vuolo, Rubén Lo(Editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes the Basic Income (BI) proposal as a model to reform policies of income transfers in Latin America. BI aims at guaranteeing a universal and unconditional income to everyone. Entitlement to BI is decoupled from labor status and questions the welfare state based on the insurance/assistance benefits model, where paid-work continues to play a central role. Latin America is one of the regions where the debate on BI is advanced, but the scenario is quite different than in the developed countries. Lo Vuolo discusses BI foundations under this particular scenario and advance possible ways to reform current policies following the guidelines of the BI proposal. A unique study, it covers many topics and many countries, looking back at both the genesis and support of current focalized and conditional programs and forward (using theoretical and empirical investigation) to see how and whether the BI proposal can be adapted for use in the region.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I Citizen’s Income and Cash Transfers......Page 38
1 Brazil: The Lost Road to Citizen’s Income......Page 40
2 The Argentine “Universal Child Allowance”: Not the Poor but the Unemployed and Informal Workers......Page 62
3 Targeting and Conditionalities in Mexico: The End of a Cash Transfer Model?......Page 78
4 Basic Pensions in Latin America: Toward a Rights-Based Policy?......Page 98
5 A Regional Citizen’s Income to Reduce Poverty in Central America......Page 124
Part II Citizen’s Income and the Latin American Public Agenda......Page 150
6 Are Latin Americans—Brazilians in Particular—Willing to Support an Unconditional Citizen’s Income?......Page 152
7 The Politics of Citizen’s Income Programs in Latin America: Policy Legacies and Party Character......Page 180
8 Should Citizen’s Income Become a Goal for Feminism in Latin America?......Page 198
9 Citizen’s Income and Democratization in Latin America—A Multi-Institutional Perspective......Page 222
10 Citizen’s Income and the Material Basis of the Constitution......Page 244
Epilogue......Page 270
Notes on Contributors......Page 278
Index......Page 280