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Regional Organizations and Social Policy: The Missing Link

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The capacity of European countries’ welfare systems to implement effective social policies has been challenged in the last decades by a number of factors such as changing demography, a rise in public indebtedness and the increasing mobility of peoples. Latin American countries have never achieved comparably efficient welfare systems; poverty and exclusion have been endemic problems in the region, but the increasing mobility of peoples constitutes a new challenge in the region as well. Despite the differences in their welfare systems and models of economic development and growth, European and Latin American governments share a commitment to social cohesion and to the regulation and provision of social policies to address inequalities; moreover, both regions are deeply engaged in regional cooperation and integration.

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Bianculli, A.C., Hoffmann, A.R. (2016). Regional Organizations and Social Policy: The Missing Link. In: Bianculli, A.C., Hoffmann, A.R. (eds) Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America. Development, Justice and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137490353_1

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