Inclusive social development: The next generation of policies for overcoming poverty and reducing inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inclusive social development: the next generation of policies for overcoming poverty...
B. The relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals to the Latin American and Caribbean social
agenda and sustainable development.................................................................................................................. 162
C. Final remarks....................................................................................................................................................... 170
Bibliography............................................................................................................................................................. 171
Tables
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Table II.1
Table III.1
Table III.2
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Table III.A1.1
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Table III.A1.3
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Table V.2
Latin America (18 countries): affiliation to pension and health systems among wage earners
aged 15 years and over, by sex.............................................................................................................. 38
Latin America (18 countries): change in affiliation to pension and health systems among
wage earners aged 15 years and over, by sex......................................................................................... 39
Latin America (10 countries): monthly per capita amount of conditional transfers
based on household surveys, around 2011 and 2013............................................................................ 71
Latin America and the Caribbean (33 countries): ratification and entry into force
of International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions, as of September 2015.................................... 89
Latin America and the Caribbean (22 countries): type of authority that chairs
or coordinates the intersectoral collegial entity in the social area........................................................... 97
Latin America (18 countries): social spending in three groups of countries
with different social promotion and protection outcomes
(simple averages for each group), around 2008-2013.......................................................................... 102
Latin America and the Caribbean (14 countries): budget of social development ministry
or equivalent entity, as a proportion of budgeted primary spending, around 2015............................... 102
Latin America and the Caribbean (26 countries): government social
development agencies, 2015............................................................................................................... 107
Latin America and the Caribbean (21 countries): composition of collegial entities
for the intersectoral coordination of social policies, 2015.................................................................... 110
Latin America and the Caribbean (21 countries): entities responsible
for main cash transfer programmes...................................................................................................... 113
Latin America and the Caribbean (22 countries): planning or coordination systems
and social programme evaluation bodies............................................................................................. 114
The Sustainable Development Goals: an expanded social agenda as part
of sustainable development................................................................................................................. 150
Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that are most relevant
to the social agenda of Latin America and the Caribbean .................................................................... 151
Figures
Figure I.1 Latin America: poverty and indigence, 1980-2014................................................................................ 16
Figure I.2 Latin America and the Caribbean: per capita GDP and rates of poverty and indigence,
1990-2014............................................................................................................................................. 17
Figure I.3 Latin America (weighted average for 18 countries and for 8 countries): profile of income
vulnerability, around 1990, 2002, 2008 and 2013, and by race or ethnic group, around 2011.............. 19
Figure I.4 Latin America (17 countries): share in total income of the poorest and richest quintiles,
2002 and 2013, and annual variation of Gini coefficient, 2002-2008 and 2008-2013........................... 21
Figure I.5 Latin America (16 countries), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
(25 countries) and European Union (15 countries): effects on inequality of fiscal policy
and social spending on education and health (Gini coefficient), around 2011....................................... 22
Figure I.6 Latin America (3 countries): distribution of hours spent weekly on domestic and care work,
by sex and household relationship, around 2010................................................................................... 24
Figure I.7 Latin America (17 countries): women aged 15 or over not in education and without incomes
of their own, around 2002 and 2011..................................................................................................... 24
Figure I.8 Latin America (8 countries): indigenous, Afro-descendent and non-indigenous,
non-Afro-descendent population, by poverty status and areas of residence, around 2011...................... 26
Figure I.9 Latin America (6 countries): indigenous population aged 6-22 years attending
an educational establishment, by age group, census rounds of 2000 and 2010...................................... 27
Figure I.10 Latin America (8 countries): births attended by skilled medical personnel,
indigenous and non-indigenous women................................................................................................ 28
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