Autor/es
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Colaborador
Clemente, Adriana
Temporal Coverage
2000-2010
Idioma
spa
Extent
211 p.
Derechos
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Identificador
Cobertura
América Latina
Carib
ARG
URY
2000-2010
Abstract
In line with the research project “Reconfiguring welfare regimes postneoliberal and persistent poverty in Latin America. Poor families as object of problematization and intervention of Social State” (UBACyT PIUBAMAS 2013-2016), in which the present thesis is framed, we problematized the tendency to globalize intervention strategies on poverty under regardless of the context in which it is expressed.
Based on the centrality currently assumed by the Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) as an intervention modality on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, in this work we set out to contribute to a critical review of the debates on the position of countries regarding social protection as main attribute of the State in the provision of welfare. To do this, we address the analysis of CCT from different levels.
First, we place the discussion of CCT in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean in order to problematize whether, despite the use of a similar social policy instrument, concrete experiences start from dissimilar political and ideological positions respect the social interventions of the State, which are based on diverse conceptions of poverty, its causes and effects, and, consequently, on the ways of addressing it.
In second place, we focused the analysis of the CCT in the experiences carried out by the socalled "progressive" governments that, during the first decade of the 21st century, marked the regional political scenario. These governments, despite the differences and nuances in the effective measures, have in common the revaluation of the role of the State as a tool for development and well-being as well as the view regarding social policies and poverty. Within this group of governments, we focused on the experiences of Argentina and Uruguay, since they constitute two paradigmatic cases that differentiate them from the rest of the countries in the region. In both cases, the CCT are inserted in the Social Security System. Both the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and the New Family Allowances Scheme (NRAF), implemented since 2009 and 2008 respectively, are presented as an extension of the Family Allowance System, a classic social security benefit, including sectors that were historically excluded from said system. This particularity allowed us to reflect about the tension between security and social help intrinsic to the notion of social protection, and to problematize which of these components is strengthened in the context of emergence and consolidation of the concrete forms assumed by the CCT in these cases.
Finally, we complement the analysis of the approaches that underlie the CCT with the inquiry about the way in which these debates are expressed in the implementation scenario, from the perspective of the target families and with focus on the significance and value attributed to the provision as well as its implications in the expectations of the same, through the case of the AUH in a municipality of the Buenos Aires conurbano.
There is an abundant international, regional and local academic production around the CCT. Many works, based on different regional experiences, describe in a detailed and comparable way various aspects of these programs: characteristics, benefits and conditionalities, investment and coverage, impact on the main social indicators, among others. On the other hand, some productions reconstruct diverse experiences of CCT, in particular those considered emblematic within this universe of programs. However, the problematization of the broad idea of social protection that underlies CCT (and how the security and social assistance tension is resolved in these programs of a restricted as well as generalized character) constitutes a little studied aspect, which makes it possible to understand the scope and contents of social protection in the concrete experiences. Likewise, there are few researches linked to the expectations that the CCT produce in the target families themselves. Therefore, we consider that their study constitutes a relevant contribution to understand the implications that CCT have at a microsocial level and the effects that often do not propose from their designs.
Based on the centrality currently assumed by the Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) as an intervention modality on poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, in this work we set out to contribute to a critical review of the debates on the position of countries regarding social protection as main attribute of the State in the provision of welfare. To do this, we address the analysis of CCT from different levels.
First, we place the discussion of CCT in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean in order to problematize whether, despite the use of a similar social policy instrument, concrete experiences start from dissimilar political and ideological positions respect the social interventions of the State, which are based on diverse conceptions of poverty, its causes and effects, and, consequently, on the ways of addressing it.
In second place, we focused the analysis of the CCT in the experiences carried out by the socalled "progressive" governments that, during the first decade of the 21st century, marked the regional political scenario. These governments, despite the differences and nuances in the effective measures, have in common the revaluation of the role of the State as a tool for development and well-being as well as the view regarding social policies and poverty. Within this group of governments, we focused on the experiences of Argentina and Uruguay, since they constitute two paradigmatic cases that differentiate them from the rest of the countries in the region. In both cases, the CCT are inserted in the Social Security System. Both the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and the New Family Allowances Scheme (NRAF), implemented since 2009 and 2008 respectively, are presented as an extension of the Family Allowance System, a classic social security benefit, including sectors that were historically excluded from said system. This particularity allowed us to reflect about the tension between security and social help intrinsic to the notion of social protection, and to problematize which of these components is strengthened in the context of emergence and consolidation of the concrete forms assumed by the CCT in these cases.
Finally, we complement the analysis of the approaches that underlie the CCT with the inquiry about the way in which these debates are expressed in the implementation scenario, from the perspective of the target families and with focus on the significance and value attributed to the provision as well as its implications in the expectations of the same, through the case of the AUH in a municipality of the Buenos Aires conurbano.
There is an abundant international, regional and local academic production around the CCT. Many works, based on different regional experiences, describe in a detailed and comparable way various aspects of these programs: characteristics, benefits and conditionalities, investment and coverage, impact on the main social indicators, among others. On the other hand, some productions reconstruct diverse experiences of CCT, in particular those considered emblematic within this universe of programs. However, the problematization of the broad idea of social protection that underlies CCT (and how the security and social assistance tension is resolved in these programs of a restricted as well as generalized character) constitutes a little studied aspect, which makes it possible to understand the scope and contents of social protection in the concrete experiences. Likewise, there are few researches linked to the expectations that the CCT produce in the target families themselves. Therefore, we consider that their study constitutes a relevant contribution to understand the implications that CCT have at a microsocial level and the effects that often do not propose from their designs.
Título obtenido
Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Intervención Social
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales