The risk of doing ‘something’ and skip discussions: assistance policy and inequality
Despite a slight reduction in recent years, Latin America still constitutes as the continent with the greatest social inequalities. The political responses to these marked social differences have been committed through assistance policies, understood as actions aimed at extreme poverty. Originated i...
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Instituto de Política, Sociedad e Intervención Social (IPSIS) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FCS) de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC)
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ConCienciaSocial/article/view/28366 |
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| Sumario: | Despite a slight reduction in recent years, Latin America still constitutes as the continent with the greatest social inequalities. The political responses to these marked social differences have been committed through assistance policies, understood as actions aimed at extreme poverty. Originated in the last century, in this one has been institutionalized and consolidated through paradigmatic mechanisms such as Social Investment Funds, Conditional Transfers and proximity programs as paradigmatic examples.
Based on the analysis of documents on these three experiences, this work aims to describe and analyze these proposals, trying to understand the assessment of reality which is part of them and contribute to consolidate. The conclusion is that assistance policy allows displacement process, that means that becomes possible to discuss poverty alone (focusing on policy beneficiaries, or the programs format and there capacity of monitoring and coordination or in their professional workers), leaving out of the analysis the structure of persistent inequality in the region. |
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