When We're Sixty-Four: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Rofman ◽  
Ignacio Apella
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Public Policies

Public policies of connectivity in Latin America in the context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Bernadette Califano ◽  
Martín Becerra
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Telecommunications Policies ◽  
Latin American Countries

This article analyses the digital policies introduced in different Latin American countries during the first three months after the outbreak of COVID-19 reached the region (March–June 2020). This analysis has a three-fold objective: (a) to give an overview of the status of connectivity in five big Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico; (b) to study comparatively the actions and regulations implemented on connectivity matters by the governments of each country to face the pandemic; and (c) to provide insights in relation with telecommunications policies in the context of pandemic emergence at a regional level. To that end, this study will consider legal regulations and specific public policies in this field, official documents from the public and private sectors, and statistics on ICT access and usage in the region.

AI Public Policies in Latin America: Disruption or more of the same?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Zambrano ◽  
Jenny Marcela Sanchez-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Policies

Loneliness Among Rural Elderly

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Borja Rivero Jiménez ◽  
Nuria María García Perales ◽  
David Conde Caballero ◽  
Beatriz Muñoz González ◽  
Julián F. Calderón García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Aging ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Measurement Scales ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Use Of Medical Services

Population aging is a great challenge for modern societies at the future and is a central issue in the development of public policies. In Spain, in rural regions, the demographic problem of aging must be added to the problem of migration. In this context, a direct consequence of the union of aging and depopulation appears: loneliness of the elderly rural populations. Several studies indicate that loneliness has a significant association with increased use of medical services. These medical analyses need to be complemented with conceptualizations that integrate them into broader views that analyze structural causes and consequences. This text reviews the types of measurement scales proposed by the academy and lists some of the campaigns carried out by the administrations. The authors will attempt to take a critical approach, analyzing how individualized and medicalized visions of loneliness have been led.

scholarly journals Public Policies on Social Security and Population Aging

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Gutiérrez Strauss ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Public Policies

scholarly journals Adolescent pregnancy, public policies, and targeted programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Clara Rodríguez Ribas
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Proximate Determinants ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Policies And Programs

Objective. To present and assess evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) on public policies and targeted programs which may have influenced variations in adolescent pregnancy or its proximate determinants, and to identify knowledge gaps that require further research. Methods. A systematic review was performed based on the 2015 PRISMA protocol. Five databases were searched for articles published between 2000 and 2019 that refer to at least one country in LAC. The outcomes of interest were adolescent pregnancy or its proximate determinants (sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and/ or abortion). Only studies exploring correlations between the outcomes of interest and public policies or targeted programs were included in the analysis. Results. Thirty studies spanning 14 countries were selected for analysis. Twenty-three of these (77%) were not included in prior systematic reviews on adolescent pregnancy. Public policies related to conditional cash transfers and compulsory education have the strongest evidence of correlation with adolescent pregnancy prevention. Emerging research points to the potential positive impact of life-skills programs for adolescents. Evidence from public health policies and programs was limited. Conclusions. Further research which incorporates an intersectional analysis is needed to better understand which policies and programs could lead to steeper declines in adolescent pregnancy in the region. Evidence on effects of expanded family planning services and secondary school attainment upon adolescent pregnancy are particularly absent.

Authoritarianism and the Growth of the State in Latin America

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Most
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Time Series Analyses ◽  
Bureaucratic State

The discussion focuses on the effects that changing forms of authoritarian rule and the growth of a bureaucratic state had on A gentine public policies during the 1930-1970 interval. Hitherto quite separate literatures are brought together in the examination of two different arguments. The first, drawn from the emerging literature on authoritarianism and corporatism in Latin America, suggests that the trends in Argentine public policies should have been interrupted whenever different types of authoritarian coalitions sequentially replaced each other in power. The second thesis, drawn primarily from research on Latin American bureaucracies and North American policy analyses, suggests that there is a need to disaggregate the coalition/policy linkage. It hypothesizes that four factors which developed at about the midpoint of the 1930-1970 period in Argentina—the growth of a large and well-entrenched public sector, limitations on the ability of political elites to press their policy demands, limitations on previously uncommitted resources, and the existence of a crisis of hegemony—should have increasingly constrained the policy-making importance of the coalitions and the leaders who represented them in the highest levels of government. Coalitions and elites should have been increasingly unable to direct and indirect policies in the ways which they preferred. Interrupted time-series analyses of seven policy series provided support for the constraints thesis. Coalitions and those who governed at the top were once important in Argentina as the authoritarian literature suggests. Coalition changes did not occur in a vacuum, however. Once the four state-related constraints developed, such shifts came to have only marginal impacts on the examined policy indicators.

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