Social exclusion and mobility in Brazil examines the changing income dynamics among homogeneous groups over a 20-year period. With respect to mobility, it tracks changes in the relative positions of social groups with similar characteristics. The analysis derives factors affecting the probability that certain groups will continue to lack equal access to the economic, cultural, and political res…
This book analyzes how some countries have implemented social policy reforms in terms of guaranteed social rights, thus moving from simply stating the adherence to soial, economic, and cultural rights to the actual process of attaining them. The social guarantees approach, then, is an effective alternative to improve social service provosion that can lift populations out of poverty, create grea…