Fernando Filgueira

• PhD
• CIESU Centro de Estudios e Informaciones del Uruguay

This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet’s continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its tw...

This handbook surveys knowledge from all six of the planet’s continuously inhabited continents to understand how governments and related institutions have attempted to advance human development and improve social outcomes over the past several decades. The current state of knowledge about the social welfare sphere is robust, but explorers of its tw...

Seit 1990 ist das Monopol der Männer über wirtschaftliche Ressourcen, ein Schlüsselmerkmal der Ungleichheit zwischen den Geschlechtern, in ganz Lateinamerika unumkehrbar ausgehöhlt worden. Der Zugang von Frauen zu eigenen Einkommen hat sich drastisch verbessert. Der Artikel beschreibt die Veränderungen hinsichtlich der beruflichen und Einkommenssit...

Families in Latin America have gone through a silent revolution affecting the role of women, leading to decreased marriage and increased divorce and separation, as well as out-of-wedlock births and more mono-maternal families. We argue that two problematic features of the region’s family regimes have deepened: an unbalanced patriarchal contract, an...

Frente a la pandemia del COVID19, los gobiernos de América Latina han tomado medidas que tienen y tendrán un profundo impacto económico y social. Si bien muchas de estas medidas mitigan parte del costo inmedia- to de la pandemia y de las estrategias epidemiológicas para su contención, las mismas pueden terminar potenciando las vulnerabilidades de l...

The objective of this article is to estimate the fiscal costs, using income and expenditure surveys, of the provision of basic public services (electricity, water, telephone and internet) for the 40% of the population with the lowest incomes, the provision of a subsidy of 50% of actual food expenditure for the 40% of the population with the lowest...

This chapter analyzes family policies across the globe, describing patterns in the development of family allowances, leave schemes, and ECEC services both in developed and developing regions. Using the OECD family database and the ILO global social protection database, it compares the developments in family policy across different regions. The chap...

La pandemia del COVID-19 está generando en el mundo y en América Latina una triple crisis combinada y asimétrica: sanitaria, económica y social. Por otra parte, la región presenta debilidades estructurales que generan fuertes dificultades para abordar el triple desafío de contención epidemiológica, recuperación económica y mitigación de los costos...

The objective of this article is to estimate the fiscal costs, using income and expenditure surveys, of the provision of basic public services (electricity, water, telephone and internet) for the 40% of the population with the lowest incomes, the provision of a subsidy of 50% of actual food expenditure for the 40% of the population with the lowest...

The objective of this article is to estimate the fiscal costs, using income and expenditure surveys, of the provision of basic public services (electricity, water, telephone and internet) for the 40% of the population with the lowest incomes, the provision of a subsidy of 50% of actual food expenditure for the 40% of the population with the lowest...

To sustain the epidemiological strategy of social distancing, social assistance must reach fast and far in the Latin American social structure. With the immediate and still-to-come economic effects, close to half the population in the region is facing an impending humanitarian crisis. While the population most vulnerable to COVID from a medical poi...

To sustain the epidemiological strategy of social distancing, social assistance must reach fast and far in the Latin American social structure. With the immediate and still-to-come economic effects, close to half the population in the region is facing an impending humanitarian crisis. We examine government responses to date. We estimate the fiscal...

Two traditional theorems of welfare economics posit a trade-off between a government redistribution targets and efficiency. We propose a third ‘claim’ of welfare economics, stating that in closed economies the actual efficiency costs associated with redistribution are small. We then examine the claim in the current phase of ‘hyper-globalization’. O...

Throughout Latin America, legal barriers enabling women to make a living equal to men are largely gone. However, women continue to lag behind men in gaining access to economic resources, and women’s labor participation differs significantly across class lines. Drawing on a policy-based explanation, we argue that a primary reason why the removal of...

Rethinking Society for the 21st Century - by International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) July 2018

Since 1990, men’s monopoly over economic resources, a key feature of gender inequality, has been irreversibly Eroded across Latin America. Women’s access to income of their own has improved in dramatic ways. The most significant change preceded the Pink Tide years, fueled by structural conditions such as fertility drops and neoliberal policies’ dow...

Latin America has been undergoing a vigorous transformation in its social policies, especially as regards social protection. One way of looking at this is that an effort is being made, via different pathways and with a variety of instruments, to construct a model of social citizenship for the first time in the region’s history since the import subs...

This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. The book’s discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with tec...

El objetivo de este libro es discutir y difundir conocimiento sobre aquellas políticas públicas, programas y marcos regulatorios que, desde un enfoque de derechos, están permitiendo ampliar la cobertura y las prestaciones de la protección social en América Latina.

National case studies on social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), reveal that over the past 10 years social protection systems and, in general, social policies in the region have been transformed. Four clear trends emerge in the vas...

This report pursues three complementary aims. Firstly, it presents the first generation of country case studies on social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, published in the ECLAC Project Documents collection; and it provides justifications for developing such systems. Secondly, it sets out a classificatory approach to social pr...

El presente trabajo persigue tres objetivos complementarios. Por un lado, presenta la primera generación de estudios de caso por país sobre los sistemas de protección social en América Latina y el Caribe, publicados en la Colección de Documentos de proyecto de la CEPAL, y fundamenta la importancia a de desarrollar los mismos. Por otra parte, presen...

Latin America is undergoing a profound transformation of its social policies and of the very concept of social citizenship. I argue in this article that such transformation takes place within a broader epochal change: the end of conservative modernization as it was defined in Barrington Moore´s seminal work. The triumph of electoral democracy, urba...

This article explores the incorpora tion crisis that occurred in Latin America at the end of the twentieth century as a result of: changes in the economic model, the durability of electoral democracies and of inequalities; increasing expectations related to educational mobility, and the dissemination of new patterns of consumption. It is argued tha...

Este informe forma parte de una serie de estudios de caso nacionales cuyo propósito es difundir el conocimiento sobre la situación actual de los sistemas de protección social en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, así como discutir los principales desafíos en este ámbito en términos de la realización de los derechos económicos y sociales de l...

This article explores the incorporation crisis that occurred in Latin America at the end of the twentieth century as a result of: changes in the economic model, the durability of electoral democracies and of inequalities; increasing expectations related to educational mobility, and the dissemination of new patterns of consumption. It is argued that...

El desarrollo en clave de modelos de capitalismo El Cono Sur de América Latina (en adelante Cono Sur 1) se encuentra en una encrucijada en términos de desarrollo. Sin embargo, el desarrollo no debe pensarse como un estadio pasivo en el que se disfruta del esfuerzo realizado hasta cruzar el umbral. Una mejor imagen es la de un sistema cuyas partes s...

This article analyzes the main challenges the Southern Cone has in terms of development. Under the umbrella of the varieties of capitalism literature, the document discusses the developmental path available for Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. It is argued that developmental routes should be evaluated by assessing their ability to produce virt...

This article claims that welfare states modelled on a contributory basis and with a system of entitlements that assumes stable two-parent families, a traditional breadwinner model, full formal employment and a relatively young age structure are profoundly flawed in the context of present-day challenges. While this is true for affluent countries mod...

El estudio se compone de cuatro secciones. En el primer punto se tratan de manera sintética las transformaciones demográficas, sociales, económicas y culturales que afectaron en las últimas décadas a la familia latinoamericana. El segundo punto se interna en la tensión que se provoca en las nuevas dinámicas entre lo doméstico, los cuidados y el mer...

Since Uruguay's return to democracy in 1985, a shift in economic and social policy has radically changed the country. The outcomes have been shaped by adjustment to international circumstances “by default”, stop-go market reforms and the inconsistent pace and content of reforms. Unlike other countries in the region, Uruguay has not followed a resol...

Resumen Desde que el Uruguay retorna a la democracia en 1985 se transforma radicalmente el país. Hay adaptaciones por defecto al nuevo entorno internacional y reformas en favor del libre mercado, aunque los cambios son muy heterogéneos en ritmo y contenido. A diferencia de otros países en la región, el Uruguay no sigue una ruta de reforma nítidamen...

Résumé Depuis son retour à la démocratie en 1985, l'Uruguay a connu des transformations radicales. Des adaptations par défaut au nouveau contexte international ont été combinées à des réformes en faveur du libre marché, avec une forte hétérogénéité quant au rythme et au contenu des changements. A la différence des autres pays de la région, l'Urugua...

The left turns represent a 'second incorporation crisis' for Latin American countries. The discontent emerging from the effects of market reforms implemented in the context of weak states and highly unequal societies has fuelled this crisis, along with citizens' widespread alienation with traditional parties and political elites. The left turns als...

Esta obra responde a uno de los objetivos del Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social (INDES) que es servir de foro de discusión sobre políticas sociales y experiencias valiosas en gerencia social de la región. Con ello se pretende hacer un aporte al fortalecimiento de las capacidades de los países del área para avanzar en reformas socia...

This book uses micro-level data for 18 Latin American countries to examine the choices adolescents make in three areas of behavior: their time allocation toward school and work, their sexual behavior and fertility, and their adoption of adult roles as they marry or cohabitate. Analyzing these issues comparatively across countries provides a richer...

This paper analyzes the reasons behind Central Government (CG) bailouts of Subnational Governments (SNGs) in the case of Uruguay. We argued that Uruguay represents a good example of the risks of fiscal decentralization, in the context of adjustment policies, and when SNGs` responsibilities and resources have not been carefully defined. We show that...

This paper discusses how young people become adults in Latin America and how that process affects educational attainment. An examination of four countries at three levels of development shows that individuals` educational attainment is closely linked to the decisions that young people make regarding adult roles, here referred to as emancipation pat...

Thesis (Ph. D., Sociology)--Northwestern University, 2000.

This paper argues for a multi-level explanatory model for understanding institutional reform. The expanding but still modest accumulation in the field tends to clump together different levels of efficient causes. Statements like “reform will be more likely in countries that have swiftly proceeded with macroeconomic reform and stabilization and have...

Almost all agree that political systems in Latin America underwent a transformation in the 1980s. The usual quick description of this change was ‘democratization’. But whether one takes an optimistic or a pessimistic view of the level of democracy that was achieved, one thing was sure—the traditional forms of participation by, and representation of...

In the 1950s Uruguay was known as a pioneer in the development of the welfare state. These policies were part of a broader process of nation-state building and social modernization. The most important agents in promoting this modernizing agenda were a group of urban politicians who since the 1870s had attempted to control state power. A major obsta...

A diferencia de muchos otros países latinoamericanos, el uruguayo, si bien fuertemente clientelar, ha sido históricamente y sigue, en buena medida siendo, un estado grande e inclusivo, dotado de bolsones de profesionalismo y eficacia lo suficientemente importantes como para asegurar la provisión continua y regular de bienes públicos a la mayoría de...

Cuando debo dictar cursos de metodología en mi país, Uruguay, sé que, a diferencia del estudiante norteamericano, me encontraré con un público poco proclive a aceptar muchos de los principios epistemológicos que, a mi juicio, permiten el análisis empírico en las Ciencias Sociales. La influencia francesa con u legado subjetivista y los aportes fenom...

Desde las primeras décadas del siglo XX Uruguay presentó niveles de equidad y de desarrollo de sus instituciones de bienestar social que le permitieron descollar en el entorno latinoamericano. En la segunda mitad del siglo, esa herencia de democracia y equidad sobrevivió sin demasiadas fisuras a las duras pruebas a la que fue sometida. Una prueba c...