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Accelerating Just Energy Transitions in Brazil: Pathways for Social Development

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This critical article analyzes energy poverty in Brazil from the theoretical perspective of distributive justice, proposing the implementation of a new social regulation called Contribution to Social Development. The goal is to support the process of a just energy transition leading to a broader debate on energy planning and social issues ...
Marcio Giannini Pereira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure and Poverty Traps

open access: yesPoverty &Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether infrastructure development helps poor economies escape low‐income traps or transition to higher‐income levels. Infrastructure has always been central to development policies and is critical for achieving the SDGs.
A. Olatunji, L. Ado‐Kofie, B. Ouattara
wiley   +1 more source

What Do People Want From a Welfare System? Conjoint Survey Evidence From UK Adults

open access: yesPoverty &Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT What do people want from a welfare system? Previous research has suggested a list of desiderata, such as that the system: reduces poverty; reduces inequality; improves mental and physical health; costs little; and rewards only the deserving. How do these different features trade off against one another to determine overall desirability?
Daniel Nettle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elections, coalitions, and the politics of Brazil's macroeconomic stabilization

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 1227-1245, December 2024.
Abstract After several failed attempts in previous years, Brazil's Plano Real finally ended hyperinflation in 1993–1994, and a significant driver of inequality and poverty was eliminated as a result. By combining data from Congress and newspaper archives, 17 interviews, and secondary sources, this article takes a qualitative approach to explore the ...
Daniel H. Alves
wiley   +1 more source

Descolonizando la historia oral: una conversación

open access: yes, 2021
History, Volume 106, Issue 370, Page E1-E17, March 2021.
wiley   +1 more source

GLOBALIZACIÓN: DESIGUALDAD Y POBREZA

open access: yesGestión en el Tercer Milenio, 2000
Una discusión que se encuentra en el tapete de los organismos internacionales y de los gobiernos, son los efectos del proceso de globalización sobre cada uno de los países y en especial sobre países como el nuestro. El proceso de globalización presenta fuertes rasgos contradictorios, por un lado integra a la población ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Puerto Rican welfare queens and the semiotics of respectability: The language of race, class, and gender

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 71-93, June 2024.
Abstract In this article, we explore how raciolinguistic parody functions in a society that hegemonically denies racial divisions. Through an analysis of Puerto Rican comedian Natalia Lugo's YouTube portrayals of her character, Francheska the Yal ‘welfare queen,’ we argue that covert racialization operates through a semiotics of respectability, whereby
Mary Elizabeth Beaton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRES DÉCADAS DE DESIGUALDAD Y EROSIÓN DE LA CLASE MEDIA EN MÉXICO

open access: yesCadernos Prolam/USP, 2012
El número de pobres en México aumentó en 7.8 millones de personas entre los años 1984 a 2010. Este artículo muestra con cálculos a partir de micro datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares de México; la evolución de la desigualdad;
Genaro Aguilar Gutiérrez
doaj   +1 more source

Desnacionalización, Regímenes Visuales y Resistencia: Gitanos Americanos en Ciudad de México

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 171-193, May 2024.
RESUMEN La idea de que el carácter de los roma es exterior al flujo de la dinámica de los procesos históricos es un organicismo alienante en México y América Latina, pues los regímenes visuales han reproducido estereotipos culturales y raciales excluyentes sobre ellos.
DAVID LAGUNAS
wiley   +1 more source

Dilemáticas contemporáneas sobre pobreza y desigualdad. Desafío disciplinar para el trabajo social

open access: yesIntervención, 2018
En el presente artículo se conceptualiza la noción de pobreza desde una perspectiva multidimensional y se observan sus posibles efectos en los modos de interacción social.
Beatriz Fernández Castrillo
doaj   +1 more source

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