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Publications must be written in or translated into English (U.K.).
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Prior to submitting work for publication to the IPC‐IG, the author
is expected to carefully review and edit their own work, to correct
grammatical and typographical errors and to verify that
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by Enrique Valencia Lomelí,
University of Guadalajara
In terms of rights, the Mexican social protection system (MSPS)
conservative in its gender approach, and, furthermore, it is also
institutions of social protection for poor people have recently been
created. However, enormous challenges still remain for the MSPS to
guarantee social rights. Limited advances in the progressivity of rights,
which have come with the creation of new institutions, may maintain
the contributory pension system consists of over 100 non-integrated
of workers and categories of civil servants. The new institutions for
poor people (also segmented) are disintegrated from the contributory
the larger contributory pensions were 291 times larger than the noncontributory ones for seniors over the age of 70. In regards to health
care coverage, the Seguro Popular scheme only covers 13 per cent
coverage categories. Thus, many services are not covered by the
The relative ineffectiveness of the MSPS is reflected in the steady
rate of poverty in recent decades (between 1992 and 2012 income
poverty barely dropped less than one percentage point, from 53.1
per cent to 52.3 per cent). Also, despite advances in social indicators,
Mexican society still has high indices of inequality (with a Gini
coefficient of 0.498 in 2012).
have created a variety of social citizenships with unequal social rights.
The MSPS also fails to adequately provide protection for labour, due to
a labour law that is seldom applied or to the tardiness of court decisions
in labour cases, and to a system of minimum wages that is used as an
The MSPS is incomplete in its general structure and coverage: it has a
long and slow history of coverage by social security institutions (70 years
after it was implemented, in 2013, only 41.7 per cent of the population
minimum wage fell by 77 per cent, and between 2001 and 2010 it hardly
changed); it is also conservative in its gender-based approach because it
tends to strengthen women’s familialisation (especially with respect
to unremunerated care activities).
Enrique Peña Nieto has proposed an ‘unemployment insurance’ that will
start with very limited coverage. Additionally, child-care establishments
are remarkably weak (in 2013, public nurseries only cared for 2.9 per cent
of children 6 years of age and under), and medical services and pension
schemes are full of gaps in their coverage and services (in 2013, 22.7
economy remains very low, with a historical resistance by economic
elites to paying higher taxes. Consequently, the social commitment
(budgetary allocations) of the State is very low in comparative terms,
although social expenditures have increased in recent years (in 2010
it reached 11.2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product).
scheme; nearly half of the economically active population are excluded
from contribution-based pensions).
March/2015
no. 48
ISSN 2358-1379
by Fábio Veras Soares, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) and Pedro Arruda (IPC-IG)
which STs are applied (and fostered) in Brazil are adaptation to the semi-arid region and prevention of natural disasters, food security,
education, energy, housing, income, water management, income generation, health and the environment.
collective guarantors to interventions that aim to contest the structure of the market economy from a more radical perspective.
with the community, and the potential to transform social realities and to be scaled up and replicated in other contexts.
technology transfer from former colonial powers to their former colonies as a means of compensation for the economic and political
exploitation of the colonial past (Fraga, 2011). This approach, however, did not question the ‘neutrality’ content of the production and
transfer of these technologies, focusing only on access (Novaes and Dias, 2010). The criticism of such ‘neutrality’ of these technologies was
later made by the pioneers of STs theories in Latin America—namely, Amilcar Herrera, Oscar Varsavky and Jorge Sábato (Costa, 2013).
the empowerment of vulnerable groups so that these groups become agents of transformational processes in which alternative and
innovative development strategies are fostered endogenously. According to Costa (2013), another feature of the STs is the right of
citizens, neighbourhood organisations, solidarity economic units, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), social movements and other
(2010; 2012) states that STs are characterised by their capacity to ‘re-design’ the usual technologies for their use in alternative contexts.
From a more critical perspective, one could argue that STs are solutions devised by vulnerable communities/groups using as a starting
point their own perception of their problems and needs and having as inputs their resources and knowledge. STs are produced and
reproduced with the aim of not alienating the agents involved. Thus, the production techniques are shared among producers, bringing
together production and the producers’ interests and stimulating communities’ creativity. In this approach STs are a production and
reproduction process with a focus on community associations and their ways of expression and organisation.
NGOs in adapting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems, allowing them to have access to its resources and put it to
use in their area of activity. The Fundação Banco do Brasil (FBB), an important stakeholder in the promotion of STs in Brazil, highlights the
References:
to be developed were the contributory segments of the social security
system, followed by the segments of social protection for poor people:
voluntary health insurance through Seguro Popular (which covered
34.7 per cent of the population in 2013); minimum non-contributionbased pensions for those over 70 years of age; since then, the 2013
national law which extended such pensions for those over 65 years
of age; and conditional cash transfers, most of all those of the
Oportunidades programme. For example,
research brief
The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth is jointly supported by the
United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Brazil.
Social Technologies and
Public Policies in Brazil1
CONEVAL (2013). ‘Medición de la pobreza’, Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo
Social website, <http://www.coneval.gob.mx/Medicion/Paginas/Medici%C3%B3n/Pobreza%202012/
Pobreza-2012.aspx> (accessed 22 October 2014).
ECLAC (2014). ‘Programas de transferencias condicionadas. Base de datos de programas de protección
social no contributiva en América Latina y el Caribe’, Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean website, <http://dds.cepal.org/bdptc/> (accessed 22 October 2014).
solutions that are replicable at large scale.
INEGI (2014). Encuesta Nacional de Empleo y Seguridad Social 2013. Mexico, Instituto Nacional de
II. Main STs Stakeholders in Brazil
Valencia Lomelí, E., D. Foust Rodríguez and D. Tetreault Weber (2012). ‘Sistema de protección social en
México a inicios del siglo XXI’, Documento de proyecto, No. 474. Santiago de Chile, Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The main stakeholders involved in the dissemination of STs in Brazil are policymakers from key research and Research and Development
(R&D) funding institutions, civil society organisations, researchers and academia:
Yemen National Social Protection
Monitoring Survey (NSPMS): 2012-2013
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Book: Author(s) or editor(s) of book [last name, first] (year). Title in Italics, edition number other than the first,
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Lal, D. (2002). The Poverty of ‘Development Economics’, 3rd Edition. London, The Institute of
Economic Affairs.
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and S. Kahkonen (eds), A Not So‐Dismal Science. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 245‐268.
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Resort and Spinning States: A Speculative Discussion Based on S. Asian Case Material’, QEH Working
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