La educación para el trabajo y la formación de habilidades han adquirido creciente connotación en el actual contexto de transformaciones económicas a nivel global. A partir de debates teóricos en la literatura sobre ...

Uruguay se encuentra en una encrucijada en términos de desarrollo. Para muchos, como se escucha en el debate nacional, Uruguay está a las puertas del desarrollo. Sin embargo, este no debe pensarse como un estadio pasivo ...

This chapter is organized into three sections. The first discusses the origins and development of Latin American welfare states before moving on to outline more recent reforms of social policy regimes in the area. A second ...

Diverse studies of the political economy of tax composition across middleincome countries have found that Latin American economies tax upperincome groups much less than do other developing regions, such as East Asia and ...

Latin America has been historically characterized by a focus on compensatory social policies, state capacity problems and unstable political coalitions impairing political and policy sustainability. In the 1980s-90s ...