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Economic and Social Progress in Latin America - IPES 2008
Outsiders?
The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in
Latin America and the Caribbean
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Outsiders? 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.
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In an effort to expand traditional social and economic research techniques and recognizing that the use of audiovisual technologies and documentary films is a powerful tool to stimulate reflection on our society, the Inter-American Development Bank invited audiovisual producers from its member countries to present entries in the micro-documentary competition The Faces of Exclusion.
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