Social Safety, from net to floor: the path of social policy through Multilateral Organizations
Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2020, Vol 11, Issue 55
Abstract
From the mid-1990s to the present, the dominant global social policy paradigm shifted from the Social Safety Net to the Social Protection Floor. The objective of this article is to analyse the political process of transformation of global social policy promoted by multilateral organizations. Based on a qualitative methodology, centred on documentary analysis, it is proposed that each paradigm of social policy is linked to the postulates of the current development model. While during the Washington Consensus wave the World Bank promoted the Social Safety Net, understood as focused and exceptional social policies in the face of optimism in market solutions; following the 2008 financial crisis, and inspired by the experience of conditional cash transfers in Latin America, the ILO promotes the Social Protection Floor, which includes a broader, quasi-universal and rights-based approach to social policy. However, the Bretton Woods twins embraced this paradigm less vigorously
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Pablo Nemiña, Julián Echandi
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