Can Social Sector Reform Make Adjustment Sustainable and Equitable? Lessons from Chile and Venezuela-p

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Angell ◽  
Carol Graham
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sectors

AbstractAdjustment in Latin America has largely been analysed in terms of macroeconomic policy. However, for reforms to be sustainable in the long term, there needs to be accompanying change in the social sectors. Such reform is difficult and costly. It is necessary, however, not simply to sustain the economic reforms, but also for an effective long-term strategy of poverty alleviation and for the consolidation of democracy. There are lessons to be learnt from successful and unsuccessful social sector reform.

scholarly journals Religious Congregations and Poverty Alleviation in the Age of New Public Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marquisha Lawrence Scott ◽  
Ram A. Cnaan
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Short Term ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Public Governance

AbstractWe discuss the implications of the new public governance and its impact on the social and economic outcomes of those experiencing poverty. As members of civil society, religious congregations are actively engaged in supporting people living in poverty with short-term responses. Addressing the societal focus on economic justice and the theological traditions of four world religions, this paper seeks to encourage religious congregations into innovative, actionable responses that help to offer long-term responses that align with poverty alleviation. We propose two approaches—community development and financial development— that serve as models for religious congregations interested in alleviating poverty.

scholarly journals Has Social Sector Development Catalysed the Inclusiveness of India’s Economic Growth?

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-81
Author(s):  
Vikram Chadha ◽  
Ishu Chadda
Keyword(s):  
Time Series Data ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Sectors

The study attempts to examine the impact of social sector development on inclusive growth in India. Ever since Independence, India’s encounter with gnawing poverty and stark deprivation, particularly of the weaker and the marginalised sections of society, cajoled India’s planners to moot the development policies with the sole objective of exacerbating growth with equity. That is why since the beginning of the planning era, the stress had been laid on strengthening and expanding the social sectors with the premise that it would boost the inclusive growth agenda, manifesting in equal access to employment and economic opportunities; equal participation in decision-making and reduction in poverty and inequality. In conformity with the objective of our study, we intend to gauge the effect and contribution of different components of social sector development in India, on inclusiveness of growth using time series data for the period of 1985–1986 to 2015–2016. It was found that the expenditure related to ‘social security and welfare’ contributes significantly towards inclusive growth in India while the expenditure incurred on ‘welfare of marginalised class’ and ‘rural development’ exudes negative association with inclusiveness of growth.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI PROGRAM KELUARGA HARAPAN DALAM UPAYA MENGENTASKAN KEMISKINAN DI KOTA BATU

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Cahyo Sasmito ◽  
Ertien Rining Nawangsari
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Data Display ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Secondary Data Sources

This research was conducted from February to April 2018 with qualitative descriptive methods. The data sources consist of: primary data sources and secondary data sources, primary data sources obtained from observations, and interviews. Interview with informants (purposive sampling) based on the interview guides as instruments, and the researchers as research instruments. While secondary data is obtained from documentation. Data analysis used the Miles and Huberman models of Sugiyono, 2017 whose activities include: data reduction, data display and conclution drawing / verification. The results of this study, the implementation of the Keluarga Harapan Program (PKH) effort to alleviate poverty in the Social Service Office of Batu City has been going well. Communication is established well with PKH Facilitators, and PKH Participants. The Social Service involves the Facilitators in meetings coordination, as provisions for improving professionals seminars and matrices in to help the Facilitators to assist PKH Participants in providing counseling to tell the terms and conditions that must be fulfilled by the Participants. The Government's Social Service of Batu City has exercised its authority both from aspects: communication, resources, disposition, and bureaucratic structure with PKH Assistants in the implementation to alleviate the PKH Participants' poverty. Therefore the implementation is being well because of the determined terms and conditions in education terms (permanent school participants) and in the health terms (long term health insurance), so that social assistance through PKH cash can be received by the Participants through the BNI account of each PKM Participant. Furthermore, the PKH Assistants help the Participants to counseling provide to PKH Participants in skills possessed develop by the each Participant. Therefore, for the long term PKH implementation in poverty alleviation efforts will be able to be realized by the Government's Social Service of Batu City.

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