Seminar

RHI Seminar: ''“Social expenditurein Latin America during the twentieth century: A new database.”

We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of May. Our speaker for this month is Xabier Garcia Fuente from the University of Barcelona.

The seminar will take place in room B0077 in the Leeuwenborch.
Hope to see you there!

Organised by Economic and Environmental History
Date

Thu 16 May 2024 14:30 to 15:45

Room B0077

Abstract:
The historiography of social expenditure in Latin America presents limitations because there are no comprehensive long-term expenditure series like those available for richer welfare states. To fill this gap, we build series of non-educational social expenditure and its beneficiaries for 18 Latin American countries, categorizing it by its destination and source of funding. By assembling data on social expenditure for the whole twentieth century, we can identify broad patterns and contribute to several debates: we observe the timing and scope of welfare dualization across the region, we discuss the existence of welfare regimes with different spending priorities and their relationship to different development strategies, and we compare the evolution of Latin American social policies with that of richer welfare states.