Institutional Framework Database for Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Institutional Framework Database for Social Policy

in Latin America and the Caribbean

Legal and regulatory dimension

The legal and regulatory dimension refers to the existing legal base of the institutional framework of social policy as a central element to identify the State's commitments to guarantee the economic, social, and cultural rights of people. This dimension incorporates the adherence and ratification of international compacts and treaties, the guarantee of rights, and the presence of different social themes in constitutional texts and specific national laws and regulations. Thus, it includes sectoral social laws, especially social development and social protection laws, as well as legislation devoted to specific segments of the population.

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Latin America and the Caribbean (33 countries): Coverage and protection of specific groups and in the specific national regulations (In number of countries)

Metadata

For the elaboration of these charts, official information from the States was used to identify the existence of national legal instruments (laws or decrees) that establish the mechanisms for social protection of main sectoral topics and for certain population segments. Some States are not included in the graphic because they do not have official information on legal instruments available.

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