The negative impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on women's employment, care
responsibilities, and access to services have motivated an unprecedented level of advocacy …

The first decades of the twenty-first century witnessed unprecedented gains in social
development for the poorest citizens of the global South. In Latin America, the share of the …

The purpose of this paper is to apply Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory to explore
the literature on how Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and Unconditional Cash Transfer …

Latin America is aging rapidly. Thus, governments in the region are reformulating their social
protection policies. In 2022, Costa Rica passed a national long-term care law. A discussion …

Childhood stunting remains a global public health problem. Many stunted children live in the
same household as overweight or obese adults (the so-called double burden of …

This book intends to address a gap in the literature on contemporary social protection,
welfare services and social development theory, policy and practice in the global South. This …

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial
occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. The European powers that colonized …

Gender-biased educational investment remains a critical issue for vulnerable households.
Despite increased female enrolment in the past decade, motivation to invest on female …

Abstract The National Action Plan to end Gender-Based Violence, which recently received
official endorsement by the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Ministers responsible for the …

Since the early 2000s, Brazil's social protection system–including poverty relief, universal
healthcare and social assistance–has undergone incremental reforms that seek to meet the …