Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of authors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Understanding insecurity and welfare regimes in the South: an analytical framework
- Part II Regional regimes
- 4 Latin America : towards a liberal-informal welfare regime
- 5 East Asia : the limits of productivist regimes
- 6 The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes
- Part III Regimes in global context
- Conclusion : Rethinking social policy in development contexts
- References
- Index
4 - Latin America : towards a liberal-informal welfare regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of authors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I Understanding insecurity and welfare regimes in the South: an analytical framework
- Part II Regional regimes
- 4 Latin America : towards a liberal-informal welfare regime
- 5 East Asia : the limits of productivist regimes
- 6 The dynamics of Africa's in/security regimes
- Part III Regimes in global context
- Conclusion : Rethinking social policy in development contexts
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Esping-Andersen (1990; 1999) has developed a typology of welfare regimes for developed countries. His analysis focuses on the production of welfare, understood as the articulation of welfare programmes and institutions – including the state, markets and households – insuring households against social risks. In his later book he notes that understanding welfare regimes, and their change over time, involves ‘(a) a diagnosis of the changing distribution and intensity of social risks, and (b) a comprehensive examination of how risks are pooled between state, market, and family’ (Esping-Andersen 1999: 33). This chapter undertakes this task for Latin America. The welfare regime approach can provide a much-needed framework enabling a comprehensive analysis of changes in welfare production in Latin America, including the study of the linkages existing between social protection and labour market institutions, and an evaluation of the outcomes of these changes. There is important research on specific programmes or institutions, but few have attempted to compare and integrate their findings. Extending this framework beyond its original focus on industrialised nations can provide a valuable new dimension, and the chapter will consider whether the fundamental change in economic and social institutions undergone by most countries in Latin America provides a rare example of a welfare regime shift.
The chapter is organised as follows. The next section identifies welfare systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The following section considers the welfare mix prior to recent social protection and labour market reform and identifies a welfare regime for Latin America.
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- Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaSocial Policy in Development Contexts, pp. 121 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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