123 Models of social assistance in Latin America

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
APT 210 (Faculty of Economics)

RC19 Sociology of Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (host committee)

Language: English
Session Organizers:
Armando BARRIENTOS, University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Maxine MOLYNEUX, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, United Kingdom
Implementation of cash transfer programs: The role of street-level bureaucrats (Oral Presentation)
Thais MARIN, University of São Paulo , Brazil

¿Oportunidades? Impacto del Programa Oportunidades sobre la movilidad social en México
Iliana YASCHINE, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PUED-UNAM), Mexico

The gender of the “new citizenship”: The mulheres da paz (Peace Women) program (Oral Presentation)
Carla GOMES, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Bila SORJ, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Transformation of Latin American welfare regimes: Early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and the new investment strategy in Argentina and Mexico (Oral Presentation)
Debora LOPREITE, Carleton University, Canada; Laura MACDONALD, Carleton University, Canada

The impact of social assistance transfers on chronic and transitory poverty in Chile: 2001-2006 (Oral Presentation)
Luis MALDONADO, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile