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The new configuration of the assistance field: the Uruguayan equity plan

The recent and increasing consolidation of the Programs for Conditioned Income Transfer (Programas de Transferencia de Renta Condicionada - PTRC) as the main instrument to fight poverty in Latin America is the starting point of the following thinking. Their implementation implies a restructuring of assistance policies, launching or modifying technical and institutional devices that are part of the new political engineering of social protection. The analysis focused on a case study: the Equity Plan - a new system of family allocations.

Programs for Conditioned Income Transfer; Assistance policies; Professional practice


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