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Social Exclusion in Urban Uruguay

This report makes several policy conclusions related to urban poverty and development in Uruguay and potentially the rest of Latin America. First, policies which prioritize improvements in access to quality basic services, particularly education, h...

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Main Author: Baker, Judy L.
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
SOCIAL MOBILITY
QUALITIATIVE ANALYSIS
VULNERABLE GROUPS
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNMENT POLICY
ACCESSIBLE SERVICES
BASIC SERVICES
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
LAND USE
EDUCATIONAL POLICY
HEALTH POLICY
TRANSPORT POLICY
PUBLIC INFORMATION
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
MARGINALIZATION
INCOME LEVELS
NEIGHBOURHOODS
DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING CRIME
DEREGULATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
EMPLOYMENT
ETHNIC GROUP
FIELD WORK
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FORESTRY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME INEQUALITY
INFANT MORTALITY
INFORMAL SECTOR
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKETS
LIFE EXPECTANCY
MATERIAL RESOURCES
NATIONAL POVERTY
NATIONAL POVERTY LINE
NEW POOR
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUTRITION
PENSION SYSTEM
PER CAPITA INCOME
POLICY MAKERS
POOR INDIVIDUALS
POVERTY LINE
PUBLIC SPACE
RURAL AREAS
SCHOOL SYSTEM
SHORT TERM
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
TRANSPARENCY
URBAN POOR
URBAN POPULATION
URBAN POVERTY
YOUTH
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/1977231/social-exclusion-urban-uruguay
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10411
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Summary:This report makes several policy conclusions related to urban poverty and development in Uruguay and potentially the rest of Latin America. First, policies which prioritize improvements in access to quality basic services, particularly education, health, transportation, social assistance, more flexible land use policies, as well as public information for those in marginal areas could help to provide an important link to jobs and human capital development, and reduce some of the facets of social exclusion. New community based programs designed and implemented by neighborhood members based on specific needs, or expansion of existing community programs, could also help to reverse the marginalization process. Second are policies related to housing. Policies that foster the maintenance of traditional integrated neighborhoods, or minimize the concentration of the poor in marginal neighborhoods, may mitigate the exclusion process. Such policies, while politically popular, should be investigated. Finally, the aggregate numbers on inequality appear to mask what is happening at a more disaggregated level such as the neighborhood. While income inequality for the country as a whole only shifted slightly during the 1989-1996 period, the within and between area changes were significant. The results of the analysis also show that polarization is not symmetric - poor individuals are clustering more, but higher income areas still have a higher income variance and more inequality.

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