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Research interests
Inequality; poverty; welfare regimes; social policy; social protection; pensions; universalism; Latin America
Luis Vargas Faulbaum
Luis has a BA in Sociology (University of Chile, 2009) and an MA in Public Policy (King’s College London, 2013). He is a Chilean national and worked for four years in the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of the United Nations, based in Santiago de Chile. He has also worked as an intern at UNRISD (Switzerland) and a junior consultant for CISP (Italy) and the Inter-American Bank.
His professional and research background is mostly on the analysis of Latin American social policies, including CCTs, social pensions and disaster responses. As a result of his period as a Research Assistant, he has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, among others formats.
Now he is a Doctoral Researchers based at the Department of International Development of the University of Oxford working on universalism in Latin American social policies, specifically on pensions. With the goal of contributing to a better understanding of universalism in the Latin American context, he analyses the backwards and incentives of the trajectory of Chilean and Brazilian pension systems towards universal outcomes.
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Journal articles and special issues( ) Los desafíos de las nuevas políticas de desarrollo social en América Latina . Revista de Economía Crítica 18 113-35
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Chapters( ) Disaster response challenges for social protection systems . In S Cecchini, F Filgueira, R Martínez, C Rossell Towards universal social protection: Latin American pathways and policy tools. ECLAC book 136 , Santiago, Chile: United Nations
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Reports( ) De los programas a las políticas públicas. Protección social y lucha contra la pobreza en Brasil, Colombia y Chile . , Madrid: Programa EUROsociAL( ) “La construcción de pactos y consensos en materia de política social. El caso de Bolsa Família en el Brasil . Serie Políticas Sociales n 209 , Santiago: Naciones Unidas
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Conference papers( ) Protección social, ajuste estructural y brechas de bienestar. Una perspectiva latinoamericana . Paper presented at the 1st Congreso Iberoamericano de Relaciones Laborales y Recursos Humanos, Seville, Spain, 28-29 January 2016( ) Inclusión laboral y estrategias de egreso de los PTC. Presentación del análisis de casos nacionales: Chile . Paper presented at the Seminario regional: articulación entre transferencias monetarias e intervenciones para la inclusión social y productiva: estrategias diferenciadas en las áreas rurales y en las áreas urbanas, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, 8-9 July
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Other publications( ) The Expansion of Cash Transfers in Chile and Its Challenges: Ethical Family Income . International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth of the United Nations Development Programme (IPC-UNDP) Policy Research Brief. , IPC-UNDP, Brazil.( ) Chile Solidario: pasado y futuro de la vía chilena a la protección social (2003-2011) . Revista CIS 14 23-44