Social safety, from net to floor. The path of social policy through multilateral organizations

From the mid-1990s to the present, the dominant development model shifted from the Washington Consensus to the Post Washington Consensus. This shift encouraged a shift in the global social policy paradigm, from the Social Safety Net to the Social Protection Floor. The objective of this article is to...

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Autores: Nemiña, Pablo, Echandi, Julián
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Conjuntura Austral
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/106693
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ConjunturaAustral/article/view/106693
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Política social
Post Consenso de Washington
América Latina
Social Policy
Post Washington Consensus
Latin America
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Sumario:From the mid-1990s to the present, the dominant development model shifted from the Washington Consensus to the Post Washington Consensus. This shift encouraged a shift in the global social policy paradigm, from the Social Safety Net to the Social Protection Floor. The objective of this article is to analyse the political process of transformation of global social policy promoted by multilateral organizations. Based on a qualitative methodology, centred on documentary analysis, it is proposed that each paradigm of social policy is linked to the postulates of the current development model. While in the 1990s the World Bank promoted the Social Safety Net, understood as focused and exceptional social policies in the face of optimism in market solutions; following the 2008 financial crisis, and inspired by the experience of conditional cash transfers in Latin America, the ILO promotes the Social Protection Floor, which includes a broader, quasi-universal and rights-based approach to social policy.