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2. Building equality and opportunity through social guarantees new approaches to public policy and the realization of rights
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gacitúa-Marió,Estanislao (Author), Norton,Andrew (Author), and Georgieva,Sophia V. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Washington, DC: World Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 270 p., Examines the validity of a social guarantees approach as a framework for evaluating, monitoring, and improving the design of social policy. Social guarantees are defined as sets of policy mechanisms that determine citizens' entitlements related to basic services and ensure their fulfillment on the part of the state. Includes Rachel Hannah Nadelman, Lavern Louard-Greaves, and Carol Watson Williams' "Achieving equitable and inclusive citizenship through social policy : the case of Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis."
3. Conditions for Success in Implementing CCT Programs: Lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Paes-Sousa,Romulo (Author), Regalia,Ferdinando (Author), and Stampini,Marco (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Jun 2013
- Published:
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Notes:
- 83 p., Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become the main social assistance interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), reaching 129 million individuals in 18 countries in 2010. Programs shared key characteristics such as the payment of cash grants and the incorporation of co-responsibilities, but varied greatly in terms of coverage, infrastructure, routines, and even objectives. In this study, we analyze the experience of six countries (Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru) and attempt to identify important lessons for countries that have recently started or that are currently considering the introduction of a CCT.
4. Niñez esmeraldeña: retrato de la diversidad
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Escobar García,Alexandra (Author), Velasco A.,Margarita (Author), Gangotena,Carmen (Editor), and Carrión Eguiguren,Francisco (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Quito , Ecuador: Observatorio de los Derechos de la Niñez y Adolescencia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 97 p., Contents: La población esmeraldeña -- Cumplimiento de los derechos de la niñez y adolescencia -- Los programas sociales : la respuesta del Estado -- Acciones para el cambio.
5. Seeing Big: Transformative Social Policies in Small States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gerecke,Megan (Author), Prasad,Naren (Author), and Hypher,Nicola (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2013
- Published:
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- Journal Title Details:
- ute for Social Development, Jul 2013, 50 pp.
- Notes:
- 50 p., This paper summarizes the findings of the UNRISD-Commonwealth Secretariat research project on Social Policy in Small States. The findings are based on the in-depth country studies of several small states and of the cross-cutting issues that they face. It looked at small states in the Caribbean region (Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago), in the Pacific region (Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu), the Indian Ocean (Mauritius and Seychelles) and the Mediterranean region (Malta). The findings of the papers are examined and compared here to draw out common lessons on how small states can effectively promote developmental, democratic and socially inclusive economies. Tables, Figures, Appendixes, References.
6. Social Policies in Grenada: Social Policies in Small States Series, No. 2
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lewis,Patsy (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- Notes:
- 74 p., The country case studies and thematic papers in this series examine social policy issues facing small states and their implications for economic development. They show how, despite their inherent vulnerability, some small states have been successful in improving their social indicators because of the complementary social and economic policies they have implemented. This paper focuses on Grenada, a small state that has made impressive initial achievements in economic and human development since independence. However, continuing unemployment and poverty, the recent erosion of trade preferences, and the changing international donor aid environment have exposed structural weaknesses in its economic model. Tables, Figures, References.