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The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC‐IG) is a global forum for South-South dialogue on innovative development policies guided by a partnership agreement between the UNDP and the Government of Brazil (represented by the Presidential Secretariat of Strategic Affairs—SAE/PR).

The IPC-IG promotes the production and dissemination of studies and policy recommendations, the exchange of development best practices and the expansion of South-South Cooperation.

The IPC‐IG welcomes submissions presenting research findings, fostering policy debate, and contributing to capacity building on development‐related topics in any one of our publication formats. Authors submitting papers to the IPC‐IG for publication should observe the following guidelines.

For more information about the types of publications at the IPC-IG please visit: www.ipc-undp.org/publications

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Publications must be written in or translated into English (U.K.). 1language of publication

Prior to submitting work for publication to the IPC‐IG, the author is expected to carefully review and edit their own work, to correct grammatical and typographical errors and to verify that editorial norms have been followed.

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Authors may submit their work electronically as an attachment to publications@ipc-undp.org. The body of the submission e‐mail should contain the title of the publication, the date, as well as the full name(s) of the author(s) and desired institutional affiliations. All submissions are acknowledged upon receipt.

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The body of the submission e-mail should also contain an abstract, providing a general overview of the work in question, comprised of around 200-250 words.4abstract

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February, 2015

Social Protection Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Mexico by Enrique Valencia Lomelí,

University of Guadalajara

In terms of rights, the Mexican social protection system (MSPS)

conservative in its gender approach, and, furthermore, it is also

institutions of social protection for poor people have recently been created. However, enormous challenges still remain for the MSPS to guarantee social rights. Limited advances in the progressivity of rights, which have come with the creation of new institutions, may maintain

The relative ine�ectiveness of the MSPS is re�ected in the steady rate of poverty in recent decades (between 1992 and 2012 income poverty barely dropped less than one percentage point, from 53.1 per cent to 52.3 per cent). Also, despite advances in social indicators, Mexican society still has high indices of inequality (with a Gini coe�cient of 0.498 in 2012).

The MSPS is incomplete in its general structure and coverage: it has a long and slow history of coverage by social security institutions (70 years after it was implemented, in 2013, only 41.7 per cent of the population

Enrique Peña Nieto has proposed an ‘unemployment insurance’ that will start with very limited coverage. Additionally, child-care establishments are remarkably weak (in 2013, public nurseries only cared for 2.9 per cent of children 6 years of age and under), and medical services and pension schemes are full of gaps in their coverage and services (in 2013, 22.7

scheme; nearly half of the economically active population are excluded from contribution-based pensions).

to be developed were the contributory segments of the social security system, followed by the segments of social protection for poor people: voluntary health insurance through Seguro Popular (which covered 34.7 per cent of the population in 2013); minimum non-contribution-based pensions for those over 70 years of age; since then, the 2013 national law which extended such pensions for those over 65 years of age; and conditional cash transfers, most of all those of the Oportunidades programme. For example,

the contributory pension system consists of over 100 non-integrated

of workers and categories of civil servants. The new institutions for poor people (also segmented) are disintegrated from the contributory

the larger contributory pensions were 291 times larger than the non-contributory ones for seniors over the age of 70. In regards to health care coverage, the Seguro Popular scheme only covers 13 per cent

coverage categories. Thus, many services are not covered by the

have created a variety of social citizenships with unequal social rights.

The MSPS also fails to adequately provide protection for labour, due to a labour law that is seldom applied or to the tardiness of court decisions in labour cases, and to a system of minimum wages that is used as an

minimum wage fell by 77 per cent, and between 2001 and 2010 it hardly changed); it is also conservative in its gender-based approach because it tends to strengthen women’s familialisation (especially with respect to unremunerated care activities).

economy remains very low, with a historical resistance by economic elites to paying higher taxes. Consequently, the social commitment (budgetary allocations) of the State is very low in comparative terms, although social expenditures have increased in recent years (in 2010 it reached 11.2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product).

References:CONEVAL (2013). ‘Medición de la pobreza’, Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social website, <http://www.coneval.gob.mx/Medicion/Paginas/Medici%C3%B3n/Pobreza%202012/Pobreza-2012.aspx> (accessed 22 October 2014).

ECLAC (2014). ‘Programas de transferencias condicionadas. Base de datos de programas de protección social no contributiva en América Latina y el Caribe’, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean website, <http://dds.cepal.org/bdptc/> (accessed 22 October 2014).

INEGI (2014). Encuesta Nacional de Empleo y Seguridad Social 2013. Mexico, Instituto Nacional de

Valencia Lomelí, E., D. Foust Rodríguez and D. Tetreault Weber (2012). ‘Sistema de protección social en México a inicios del siglo XXI’, Documento de proyecto, No. 474. Santiago de Chile, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Social Technologies and Public Policies in Brazil1

which STs are applied (and fostered) in Brazil are adaptation to the semi-arid region and prevention of natural disasters, food security, education, energy, housing, income, water management, income generation, health and the environment.

collective guarantors to interventions that aim to contest the structure of the market economy from a more radical perspective.

with the community, and the potential to transform social realities and to be scaled up and replicated in other contexts.

technology transfer from former colonial powers to their former colonies as a means of compensation for the economic and political exploitation of the colonial past (Fraga, 2011). This approach, however, did not question the ‘neutrality’ content of the production and transfer of these technologies, focusing only on access (Novaes and Dias, 2010). The criticism of such ‘neutrality’ of these technologies was later made by the pioneers of STs theories in Latin America—namely, Amilcar Herrera, Oscar Varsavky and Jorge Sábato (Costa, 2013).

the empowerment of vulnerable groups so that these groups become agents of transformational processes in which alternative and innovative development strategies are fostered endogenously. According to Costa (2013), another feature of the STs is the right of citizens, neighbourhood organisations, solidarity economic units, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), social movements and other

(2010; 2012) states that STs are characterised by their capacity to ‘re-design’ the usual technologies for their use in alternative contexts.

From a more critical perspective, one could argue that STs are solutions devised by vulnerable communities/groups using as a starting point their own perception of their problems and needs and having as inputs their resources and knowledge. STs are produced and reproduced with the aim of not alienating the agents involved. Thus, the production techniques are shared among producers, bringing together production and the producers’ interests and stimulating communities’ creativity. In this approach STs are a production and reproduction process with a focus on community associations and their ways of expression and organisation.

NGOs in adapting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems, allowing them to have access to its resources and put it to use in their area of activity. The Fundação Banco do Brasil (FBB), an important stakeholder in the promotion of STs in Brazil, highlights the

solutions that are replicable at large scale.

II. Main STs Stakeholders in Brazil The main stakeholders involved in the dissemination of STs in Brazil are policymakers from key research and Research and Development (R&D) funding institutions, civil society organisations, researchers and academia:

FINEP (Funding Agency for Studies and Projects)

BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development)

The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth is jointly supported by the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Brazil.

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The bibliographical references should follow a consistent format, as indicated.

Book: Author(s) or editor(s) of book [last name, first] (year). Title in Italics, edition number other than the first, City, Publisher. Sample:

Lal, D. (2002). The Poverty of ‘Development Economics’, 3rd Edition. London, The Institute of Economic Affairs.

Articles in books: Author(s) of article [last name, first] (year). ‘Title of Article’ in: Editor(s) of Book [last name, first], Title of Book in italics, City, Publisher, Page numbers. Sample:

Bardhan, P. (2000). ‘The Nature of Institutional Impediments to Economic Development’ in M. Olson and S. Kahkonen (eds), A Not So‐Dismal Science. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 245‐268.

Electronic Referencing: Author(s) or editor(s) (year). ‘Title of reference’, Publisher, <web address> (date of access). Sample:

Garstang (2007). ‘Slavery Today’, Garstang Fair Trade Website, <www.garstangfairtrade.org.uk/ slavery_today.htm> (accessed 9 August 2007).

Working Papers: Author(s) [last name, first] (year). ‘Title of Document’, Series of the paper, Working Paper number, City, Institution. Sample:

Harriss‐White, B. (1997) ‘Informal Economic Order: Shadow States, Private Status States, States of Last Resort and Spinning States: A Speculative Discussion Based on S. Asian Case Material’, QEH Working Paper Series, No. 6. Oxford, Queen Elizabeth House.

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Foreign words: these should be in Italics unless they have become essentially a part of the English language, in which case roman should be used, retaining accents.

Acronyms: a title or name of an organization, programme or institution that recurs in the text should normally be written in full the first time it is mentioned, and then followed by the acronym between parantheses.

Numbers: one to nine spelled out. For 10 upwards use numerals, unless the number starts the sentence.

Currencies: References to currencies should follow the 3-letter ISO 4217 Currency Codes (<http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/currency_codes.html>), followed by the nominal amount without a space (e.g. USD215, BRL215, CHF215).

Percentages: use ‘per cent’ in longer prose. The % sign should be used in tables and figures.

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Abbreviations: abbreviations such as kg or km should not be followed by a period.

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