Friday, November 20, 2009
[IWS] ECLAC: SOCIAL PANORAMA OF LATIN AMERICA 2009 [November 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Social Panorama of Latin America 2009
http://www.eclac.org/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/0/37840/P37840.xml&xsl=/dds/tpl-i/p9f.xsl&base=/tpl-i/top-bottom.xsl
or
http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/0/37840/PSI2009-Sintesis-Lanzamiento.pdf
[full-text, 64 pages]
http://www.eclac.org/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/xml/0/37840/P37840.xml&xsl=/dds/tpl-i/p9f.xsl&base=/tpl-i/top-bottom.xsl
or
http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/0/37840/PSI2009-Sintesis-Lanzamiento.pdf
[full-text, 64 pages]
The 2009 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of the current crisis and on medium- and long-term projections. It focuses in particular on the impact of public transfers, trends in social spending, the mechanisms by which social vulnerability is reproduced and changing intergenerational and gender relations. These changes pose significant challenges for the role played by the State, the market and families in jointly meeting needs related to the population's welfare.
The document is divided into two parts. Part 1 includes the usual chapter on poverty and income distribution in the region and a second chapter that examines these issues in greater depth through an analysis of social spending, monetary transfers and conditional cash transfer programmes. The third chapter examines poverty and social vulnerability in light of the crisis and post-crisis situation and analyses how the countries' social protection systems can mitigate these effects of the crisis. Part 2 focuses on the care economy. It includes a chapter on paid and unpaid work from a gender perspective, highlighting inequalities and outstanding debts in the sexual division of labour; a chapter that looks at population projections and trends and underscores the pressing short- and medium-term priorities for care work; and a final chapter on the policy implications of these transformations.
CONTENTS
Introduction.........................................................................................................................5
Summary..............................................................................................................................9
Poverty and inequality in the context of the economic crisis ........................................9
Dynamics of social spending, monetary transfers and co-responsibility
transfer programmes.........................................................................................................22
The crisis, post-crisis scenarios and social vulnerability in Latin America ...............33
Gender and paid and unpaid work: links in the chains of discrimination
and inequality ....................................................................................................................41
Generational impacts of population dynamics and care provision in
the framework of social protection .................................................................................51
Public policies and the care crisis: alternatives and initiatives....................................58
Introduction.........................................................................................................................5
Summary..............................................................................................................................9
Poverty and inequality in the context of the economic crisis ........................................9
Dynamics of social spending, monetary transfers and co-responsibility
transfer programmes.........................................................................................................22
The crisis, post-crisis scenarios and social vulnerability in Latin America ...............33
Gender and paid and unpaid work: links in the chains of discrimination
and inequality ....................................................................................................................41
Generational impacts of population dynamics and care provision in
the framework of social protection .................................................................................51
Public policies and the care crisis: alternatives and initiatives....................................58
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
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