<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from : <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From Social Safety Net to Social Policy?</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Francesca Bastagli</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics and Political Science</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Working Paper number 60 December, 2009</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> -<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC - IG)</span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online PDF [35p.] at: <a href="http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper60.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper60.pdf</span></font></a> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“…….During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, conditional cash transfers CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and inclusive set of social policies. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At the same time, particular conditional cash transfers CCT features risk promoting the further residualisation and fragmentation of safety nets. Drawing on the experience of six countries in Latin America, </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">[Colombia – Chile - Honduras – Nicaragua - Brazil – Mexico]</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> - this paper identifies the variations and recent trends in conditional cash transfers CCT design and implementation. <br>
<br>Based on this review, it considers the contribution of conditional cash transfers CCTs to the potential transition from a largely absent or minimal safety net to a coordinated system of social policies…”<br><br> </span></font></p>
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