The external and internal imbalances that appeared in the early 1980s, together with the adjustment and stabilization policies applied throughout that decade in Latin America, juxtaposed the need to reduce the fiscal deficit with the need to make up for the loss of income sustained by the most vulnerable groups of the population as a consequence of the external debt crisis. This article examines patterns of social expenditure in a number of countries in the region, in an effort to determine how these policies affected the level and composition of social spending and, hence, influenced social p…
1 Ago 1993, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 10:36
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The financing of a State's sub-national levels of government, in federal and other systems alike, is an instrument of decentralization; first, each State has to decide what area of responsibility to assign to each governmental level and then it must design a suitable financing mechanism. If these sub-national governments' degrees of fiscal and administrative autonomy are not kept in alignment, then eventually the initiative may fail as the bodies at these levels gradually lose decision-making power within their sphere of responsibility. It is unlikely that sub-national levels of gove…
1 Ene 1988, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 10:29
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Analiza las reformas a las políticas sociales iniciadas en Chile a partir de 1975, caracterizadas por una mayor focalización de los programas específicos, y un aumento de la eficiencia del gasto social a través de la descentralización y de la incorporación del sector privado en el financiamiento de dichas políticas…
1 Ene 1988, 00:00 - 12 Oct 2025, 10:29
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Examina el programa global y el estado de ejecución a la fecha del Fondo Social de Emergencia creado en Bolivia en 1985, como instrumento para mitigar el costo social de la crisis económica y de las políticas de ajuste…