Outsiders?: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean. Economic and Social Progress in Latin America. 2008 Report

Heather Berkman, Carmen Pages, Néstor Gandelman, Eduardo Gandelman, Sebastian Calonico, Viviane Azevedo, J. Mark Payne, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Suzanne Duryea, Juan Chaparro, Eduardo Lora, Hugo Ñopo, Jacqueline Mazza, Laura Ripani (), Alberto E. Chong, Sandra Polania-Reyes, Gustavo Márquez, Cesar Patricio Bouillon () and Gianmarco León
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Maria Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Diaz

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Abstract: This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the excluded. Using the tools of experimental economics, the report shows the enormous economic and welfare costs of exclusion, suggesting that inclusion policies should be viewed as an investment rather than as a supposedly generous handout to the worst off in society. Inclusion policies thus are more than new programs or new institutions to redress past injustices through income transfers, and imply fundamental changes in the way decisions are made, resources are allocated, and policies are implemented in democratic societies.

Keywords: pobreza, excluidos, inclusión, indígenas, afrodescendientes, discapacidades, origen étnico, género, meritocracia, discriminación, Economic and Social Progress Report, IPES, 0253-6013; Informe de Progreso Económico y Social, IPES, 0095-2850 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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