73 Poverty and social policy in Latin America

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
APT 210 (Faculty of Economics)

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

Language: English
Session Organizers:
Camila ARZA, Latin American School of Social Sciences, Argentina and Daniel BELAND, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Chair:
Jennifer PRIBBLE, University of Richmond, USA
The cash transfer programs in Brazil, Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua: Similarities and differences in the fight against poverty (Oral Presentation)
Fernando BURGOS, Funda��o Getulio Vargas de S�o Paulo (FGV-EAESP), Brazil

Possibilities and limitations of income transfer programs and social assistance services: Are we condemned to the punishment of sisyphus? (Oral Presentation)
Carla BRONZO, School of Government, Jo�o Pinheiro Foundation, Brazil

Citizenship and Bolsa Familia (Distributed Paper)
Maria Ines FERREIRA, Universidade Federal do Rec�ncavo da Bahia, Brazil