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This paper analyzes the Argentinian experiences of Youth Participatory Budgeting with a hypothesis according to which the conception of the device produces a displacement from the «participant» to the «beneficiary». For this purpose, we present the definition of PPJ and describe its functioning in Argentina; observe how it is in the type of projects arising from the participatory process that officials consider mostly that lies the «youth» feature of the PPJ; and we show that the PPJ can be considered a «participationrecognition» device. We conclude that the practices tend to confuse the decision-maker on the projects with the beneficiary of these projects, and we pose questions for future works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a research on Information and Communication Technology -ICT; it specifically focuses on computer use and knowledge of the Internet existence by vulnerable population. La Escuela Busca al Niño (EBN-Santa Marta) Project was selected as a context of research. This was operated by Universidad del Magdalena and was supported by Ministry of National Education, UNICEF, ECOPETROL and Santa Marta Council. The project aim was to provide care for children and adolescents in vulnerable conditions, outside the education system, and their families. In this study, a characterization of 2481 persons of family cores beneficiaries of project was done. The results showed that access levels to computers and knowledge of Internet existence was very low, highlighting that 94% of the population under study has not access to a computer and do not know about Internet existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the Chilean health system, including its structure, financing, beneficiaries, and its physical, material and human resources. This system has two sectors, public and private. The public sector comprises all the organisms that constitute the National System of Health Services, which covers 70% of the population, including the rural and urban poor , the low middle-class, the retired, and the self-employed professionals and technicians. The private sector covers 17.5% of the population, mostly the upper middle-class and the high-income population. A small proportion of the population uses private health services and pays for them out-of-pocket. Around 10% of the population is covered by other public agencies, basically the Health Services for the Armed Forces. The system was recently reformed with the establishment of a Universal System of Explicit Entitlements, which operates through a Universal Plan of Explicit Entitlements (AUGE), which guarantees timely access to treatment for 56 health problems, including cancer in children, breast cancer , ischaemic heart disease, HIV/AIDS and diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a few years of implementation, the Bolsa Familia Program, which covers more than 12 million families, has become the largest program of income transfer in the world and confirmed the distribution of money as the predominant form of social policy in Brazil. Despite the evidence of the effectiveness of such intervention in the economic sphere, when we look at the relationship between the beneficiaries and the agents responsible for the policy, other research questions emerge. When analyzing the trajectory of this policy from the federal sphere to the beneficiary, one can recognize the diverse paths the implementation of this program takes. This paper inquires about the impacts of this program on citizenship, through the organization and participation (or absence) of the beneficiaries in politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deepens into the issue addressed by a previous paper: downsizing. This is examined as a psycho-social work phenomenon, by analyzing its psycho-social impact. Firstly, we describe the different levels of understanding of this phenomenon, and then we analyze the effects and consequences on people. To kind of victims are distinguished: a) employees who leave the organization -who are made redundant; and b) employees who remain in the organization (survivors), paying particular attention to what is known as "survivor's syndrome", and including information about the main features and moderating variables involved, and the explanatory models. Finally, some considerations are made about the current relevance of this syndrome and the idea that the phenomenon of downsizing and its impact on the people affected could now be considered a new syndrome ol' work-related psychopathology -the survivor's syndrome [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]