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Age with Care
In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 8 million older people are unable to independently complete at least one basic activity of daily living, such as eating, bathing or showering, or getting in and out of bed. This situation, called care dependence, affects 12% of people over age 60 and nearly 27% of people over age 80 in the region. The demand for long-term care services will more than triple in the next 30 years, due primarily to population aging and the epidemiological transition. The region will also see a drop in the traditional supply of long-term care services, which are based mainly on the unpaid work of women in families. Given this outlook, societies and governments must r...
Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance
Targeting is a commonly used, but much debated, policy tool within global social assistance practice. Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance: A New Look at Old Dilemmas examines the well-known dilemmas in light of the growing body of experience, new implementation capacities, and the potential to bring new data and data science to bear.The book begins by considering why or whether or how narrowly or broadly to target different parts of social assistance and updates the global empirics around the outcomes and costs of targeting. It illustrates the choices that must be made in moving from an abstract vision to implementable definitions and procedures, and in deciding how the choices should ...
The Middle Class in World Society
This volume delves into the study of the world’s emerging middle class. With essays on Europe, the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the book studies recent trends and developments in middle class evolution at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It reconsiders the conceptualization of the middle class, with a focus on the diversity of middle class formation in different regions and zones of world society. It also explores middle class lifestyles and everyday experiences, including experiences of social mobility, feelings of insecurity and anxiety, and even middle class engagement with social activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the book provides a sophisticated analysis of this new and rapidly expanding socioeconomic group and puts forth some provocative ideas for intellectual and policy debates. It will be of importance to students and researchers of sociology, economics, development studies, political studies, Latin American studies, and Asian Studies.
Envejecer con cuidado
En América Latina y el Caribe más de ocho millones de adultos mayores no pueden llevar a cabo de manera independiente al menos una actividad básica de la vida diaria, como bañarse, comer, o acostarse y levantarse de la cama. Es lo que se conoce como dependencia funcional, que afecta al 12% de las personas de 60 años o más de nuestra región, y a casi el 27% de los que tienen 80 años o más. En los próximos 30 años, la demanda de servicios de atención a la dependencia superará al triple de la actual, debido principalmente al envejecimiento poblacional y a la transición epidemiológica. Además, se reducirá la oferta tradicional de servicios de atención, basada principalmente en...
Así funcionan las transferencias condicionadas
Los programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas cumplen veinte años de implementación en América Latina y el Caribe. Este libro aprovecha dicha ocasión para revisar críticamente las opciones de diseño y las soluciones operativas que han utilizado los países de la región, con el objetivo de sistematizar el conocimiento operativo acumulado e identificar buenas prácticas y retos pendientes. Aborda los principales procesos del ciclo operativo: analiza la identificación de los beneficiarios y el manejo del padrón, la verificación de condicionalidades y el pago de las transferencias. Además, discute temas transversales como la organización de los programas en el territorio, los sistemas de gestión de la información y la vinculación de los beneficiarios a otros programas sociales. Este libro es una herramienta útil y práctica para las personas que buscan entender cómo funcionan los programas de transferencias, y cómo pueden ser mejorados aprovechando las experiencias de otros países.
世界各国减贫概要（第2辑）
本书对亚洲和拉丁美洲等发展中国家的经济社会发展概况、贫困状况、减贫战略及政策体系等进行了综合归纳和基本述评，希望为关注全球减贫事业的各界人士提供了解他国发展与减贫现状、开展减贫交流与合作的背景资料，从而启发更多的思考。
Underdevelopment in Peru
At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of Covid-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this book analyzes the persistence and the structural underpinnings of underdevelopment in Peru. During the commodities boom of 2004–2011, Peru experienced strong levels of economic growth, bringing poverty down and increasing the middle-class population. In the Covid-19 pandemic, however, the severe lack of structural economic and social improvements has been exposed. With the arrival of the pandemic, hospitals collapsed, oxygen supplies dwindled, and informality rose, with dire consequences for the vulnerable, and for those already working on subsist...
Handbook on Gender and Social Policy
Providing a state of the art overview, this comprehensive Handbook is an essential introduction to the subject of Gender and Social Policy. Bringing together original contributions and research from leading researchers it covers the theoretical perspectives of the field, the central policy terrain of gender inequalities of income, employment and care, and family policy. Examining gender and social policy at both the regional and national level, the Handbook is an excellent resource for advanced students and scholars of sociology, political science, women’s studies, policy studies as well as practitioners seeking to understand how gender shapes the contours of social policy and politics.
Gender Inequalities
Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Global changes in market access, climatic conditions, and the availability of natural resources intensify disparities in income, in assets and in power among genders. This book aims to explain these gender dynamics at macro and micro levels through GIS and spatial analysis. The first part of the book introduces key concepts of how to integrate GIS in gender inequality research. The second part presents more in-depth case studies, carefully selected such as mapping gender-based violence, gender-inequality in the labor force, refugee mapping, etc.
Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems
The Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems synthesizes real-world experiences and lessons learned of social protection delivery systems from around the globe. It takes a broad view of social protection, covering various intended populations such as poor or low-income families, unemployed workers, persons with disabilities, and individuals facing social risks. It discusses many types of interventions that governments provide to individuals, families, or households, including categorical programs, poverty-targeted programs, labor benefits and services, disability benefits and services, and social services.The Sourcebook seeks to address concrete “how-to” questi...
