Strategic Social Action Plan for MERCOSUR: Income transfer programs in the context of a neoliberal offensive

Authors

  • Rosilaine Coradini Guilherme Federal University of Pampa, São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul
  • Carlos Nelson dos Reis Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02592018v21n1p108

Abstract

This article analyzes the Strategic Social Action Plan for the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), based on its relationship with the Millennium Development Goals, which means articulating the reflection to the context of the neoliberal offensive in Latin America. Epistemologically the study is based on the dialectical-critical method, involving exploratory research, with a survey of documentary and bibliographic sources. This research revealed that the focus of the social agenda is the establishment of an exit door or the sustained emancipation of families, by means of individual training, based on the theory of human capital and neoliberal ideology. The scope of the study presupposes presenting the contents of the historic processes and the theoretical concepts that permeate the proposals contained in the Strategic Plan, to stimulate the debate about the issue.

Author Biographies

Rosilaine Coradini Guilherme, Federal University of Pampa, São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul

Doctor in Social Work from the Pontific Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Adjunct Professor of Social Work in the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA).

Carlos Nelson dos Reis, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Doctor in Political Economy from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Senior Professor and Researcher in the Graduate Program in Social Work at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

Published

2018-02-09

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