Table 1

Dimensions of state and welfare regime transformations

State transformationsStateness according to state power resources
  1. Resources recovery for the state: the renegotiation of external debt; the adjustment of several contracts with transnational companies; construction of a more robust and progressive tax system

  2. Efficient organization of resources associated to public management modernization: reconstruction of the state's planning capacity

Stateness as the presence and attention of the State in the territory
  1. The decentralization and deconcentration process

  2. Transformations in public administration: grant state management legality, certainty and a technical framing

  3. The creation of a national education and health systems

State's (relative) autonomyDe-corporatization process
The welfare regime transformationsDecommodification
  1. Social rights. Increase in resources, services, health and education coverage. Quality improvements

  2. Dependency. Simplification of the social security system. Expansion of affiliation with considerable penalties. Expansion of the peasant social security system and inclusion of domestic work. Conditional cash transfers like a subjective right

StratificationInequality and monetary poverty reduction
CommodificationIncrease of the economically active population to two-third. Slight reduction in informality. Important increase in social security affiliations
De-familiarizationInvestment in welfare policies ameliorated the gender gap (education, wealth, social security)
Deep inequalities in the distribution of reproductive work. Significant challenges on access to sexual and reproductive health

Source(s): Prepared by the authors

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