CEIL   02670
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIONES LABORALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Between universality and targeting. The experience of conditional cash transfers and the role of the trade union movement in Argentina
Autor/es:
DOBRUSIN BRUNO
Lugar:
Mumbai
Reunión:
Conferencia; International Centre for Decent Work Annual Thematic Conference; 2013
Institución organizadora:
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Resumen:
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This
essay brings to fore the necessary discussion on the role the state
has to play in social policies, and therefore in providing for its
people. The predominant neoliberal perspective that delinked the
state from essential functioning of society led also to the
implementation of ?efficient? targeted social policies that help
only certain sectors of society. In societies like Latin America and
Argentina have, with widespread poverty and lack of state support,
the need to produce universal policies is fundamental to the human
development of the population. The impressive macroeconomic
development and advances in poverty reduction strategy are ideal
complements to the implementation of such redistributionist policies
that affect the entire population. It is an irony that in the
presence of leftists? governments, most of them coming from
grassroots, working-class movements, policies are still considered in
a targeted form. Argentina is a crucial case in this