Download or read book Social Panorama of Latin America 2009 (Includes CD-ROM) written by United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 17th version of the report - one of ECLAC's most important flagship publications - provides estimates for 2009 on poverty and indigence in the region and analyses social spending and government social protection policies. The Social Panorama 2009 includes the following, among other issues: An analysis of social protection policies, including conditional transfer programmes and their re-distributive impact; a review of government social agendas before and during the crisis: actions, challenges and options; a diagnosis of who are most vulnerable to poverty in the region and how to protect them and, suggestions for a new social protection system in Latin America.