Human capital versus basic income : ideology and models for anti-poverty programs in Latin America /
Borges, Fabián A., 1980-
Human capital versus basic income : ideology and models for anti-poverty programs in Latin America / Ideology and models for anti-poverty programs in Latin America Fabián A. Borges. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index.
Latin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)-innovative social programs that award regular stipends to poor families on the condition that their children attend school. Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America challenges the conventional wisdom that these two transformations were unrelated. In this book, author Fabia̹n A. Borges demonstrates that this ideology greatly influenced both the adoption and design of CCTs. There were two distinct models of CCTs: a "human capital" model based on means-tested targeting and strict enforcement of program conditions, exemplified by the program launched by Mexico's right, and a more universalistic "basic income" model with more permissive enforcement of conditionality, exemplified by Brazil's program under Lula. These two models then spread across the region. Whereas right and center governments, with assistance from international financial institutions, enacted CCTs based on the human capital model, the left, with assistance from Brazil, enacted CCTs based on the basic income model. The existence of two distinct types of CCTs and their relation to ideology is supported by quantitative analyses covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research in three countries. Left-wing governments operate CCTs that cover more people and spend more on those programs than their center or right-wing counterparts. Beyond coverage, a subsequent analysis of the 10 national programs adopted after Lula's embrace of CCTs confirms that program design-evaluated in terms of scope of the target population, strictness of conditionality enforcement, and stipend structure-is shaped by government ideology. This finding is then fleshed out through case studies of the political processes that culminated in the adoption of basic income CCTs by left-wing governments in Argentina and Bolivia and a human capital CCT by a centrist president in Costa Rica.
9780472902774 0472902776
10.3998/mpub.12001219 doi
22573/ctv287t4sf JSTOR
2021054542
Economic assistance, Domestic--Latin America.
Basic income--Latin America.
Public welfare--Latin America.
Transfer payments--Latin America.
Poverty--Latin America.
Aide au développement économique régional--Amérique latine.
Revenu annuel garanti--Amérique latine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.
Basic income.
Economic assistance, Domestic.
Economic policy.
Latin America--Economic policy.
Education and state--Latin America.
Latin America--Politics and government--21st century.
Amérique latine--Politique économique.
Latin America.
Electronic books.
HC130.P63
338.91/8
Human capital versus basic income : ideology and models for anti-poverty programs in Latin America / Ideology and models for anti-poverty programs in Latin America Fabián A. Borges. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index.
Latin America underwent two major transformations during the 2000s: the widespread election of left-leaning presidents (the so-called left turn) and the diffusion of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs)-innovative social programs that award regular stipends to poor families on the condition that their children attend school. Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models of Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America challenges the conventional wisdom that these two transformations were unrelated. In this book, author Fabia̹n A. Borges demonstrates that this ideology greatly influenced both the adoption and design of CCTs. There were two distinct models of CCTs: a "human capital" model based on means-tested targeting and strict enforcement of program conditions, exemplified by the program launched by Mexico's right, and a more universalistic "basic income" model with more permissive enforcement of conditionality, exemplified by Brazil's program under Lula. These two models then spread across the region. Whereas right and center governments, with assistance from international financial institutions, enacted CCTs based on the human capital model, the left, with assistance from Brazil, enacted CCTs based on the basic income model. The existence of two distinct types of CCTs and their relation to ideology is supported by quantitative analyses covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research in three countries. Left-wing governments operate CCTs that cover more people and spend more on those programs than their center or right-wing counterparts. Beyond coverage, a subsequent analysis of the 10 national programs adopted after Lula's embrace of CCTs confirms that program design-evaluated in terms of scope of the target population, strictness of conditionality enforcement, and stipend structure-is shaped by government ideology. This finding is then fleshed out through case studies of the political processes that culminated in the adoption of basic income CCTs by left-wing governments in Argentina and Bolivia and a human capital CCT by a centrist president in Costa Rica.
9780472902774 0472902776
10.3998/mpub.12001219 doi
22573/ctv287t4sf JSTOR
2021054542
Economic assistance, Domestic--Latin America.
Basic income--Latin America.
Public welfare--Latin America.
Transfer payments--Latin America.
Poverty--Latin America.
Aide au développement économique régional--Amérique latine.
Revenu annuel garanti--Amérique latine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.
Basic income.
Economic assistance, Domestic.
Economic policy.
Latin America--Economic policy.
Education and state--Latin America.
Latin America--Politics and government--21st century.
Amérique latine--Politique économique.
Latin America.
Electronic books.
HC130.P63
338.91/8