Author: UN. ECLAC. Social Development DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
America Latina Y Las Crisis
Author: UN. ECLAC. Social Development DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
La crisis del desarrollo social
Author: Comision Economica para América Latina y el CaribePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 83
Book Description
La crisis del desarrollo social
Author: El impacto social de la crisis el relanzamiento del desarrollo social
Author: R. FrancoThe social crisis in Latin America
Author: Roger VekemansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Development Crises and Alternative Visions
Author: Gita SenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134156820
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.
Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis
Author: José Antonio AlonsoPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023150439X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. Unfortunately, coordination has weakened after these initial steps, indicating one of the crisis's adverse effects will be a significant reduction in development cooperation. Urging advanced nations to improve their support for development, the contributors to this volume revisit the causes of the 2008 collapse and the ongoing effects of recession on global and developing economies. They reevaluate the international response to crisis and suggest more effective approaches to development cooperation. Experts on international aid join together to redesign the cooperation system and its governance, so it can accept new actors and better achieve the Millennial Development Goals of 2015 within the context of severe global crisis. In their introduction, José Antonio Alonso and José Antonio Ocampo summarize different chapters and the implications of their analyses, concluding with a frank assessment of global economic imbalance and the ability of increased cooperation to rectify these inequalities.
Social Panorama of Latin America 2020
Author: United Nations PublicationsPublisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211220698
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This publication examines the social impact of an unprecedented crisis. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have spread to all areas of human life, altering the way we interact, crippling economies and bringing about profound changes in societies. The pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the major structural gaps in the region, and it is clear that the costs of inequality have become unsustainable and that it is necessary to rebuild with equality and sustainability, aiming for the creation of a true welfare state, long overdue in the region.
The Crisis of Social Development
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Who Decides Social Policy?
Author: Alejandro BonvecchiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781464815720
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have made remarkable progress in improving the living conditions of their people since the 1990s. Poverty has declined by almost 50 percent, and average life expectancy has increased substantially, especially for children under the age of five. Most children now attend primary school, and three out of four start secondary education. These advances can be largely accounted for by two factors: the fast-paced economic growth of the early 2000s and the substantial expenditures for social programs in the region. However, the region's economic slowdown has halted the pace of improvement, and social policies have not been implemented consistently or effectively because of flaws in design and execution. These failings raise important questions. Who formulates social policy? What resources do actors bring to decision-making processes, and how do those resources position them within decision-making networks? These are not academic questions. The budget and economic constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that public policies will have to be more efficient and effective while dealing with limited resources. Few analyses to date have focused on the process of formulating social policy, the social networks involved, the details of coordination among actors and organizations, and the institutional, normative, and operational factors that make policies likely to succeed--or fail. There has not been a comprehensive, systematic study of how social policy-making processes and coordination mechanisms--formal or informal-- can make a difference in the operational effectiveness and impact of social policies. Who Decides Social Policy? Social Networks and the Political Economy of Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean attempts to fill this void. This book combines an institutional political economy approach to policy making with social network analysis of social policy formulation processes. Based on extensive interviews with governmental and nongovernmental actors, the case studies of social policy formulation in Argentina, The Bahamas, Bolivia, and Trinidad and Tobago show that while societal actors are central in the networks in South American countries, government officials are the main participants in the Caribbean countries. The comparative analysis of the networks of ideas, information, economic resources, and political power across these cases indicates that differences in the types of bureaucratic systems and governance structures may explain the diversity of actors with decision power and the resources used to influence social policy formulation across the region. These analytical and methodological contributions--combined with specific examples of policies and programs--will help to enhance the efficiency, efficacy, and sustainability of public policies in the social arena.