Urban public transportation as a socioeconomic: a latin American perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Saraiva, Enrique
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/7812
• topic: socio-economic policies; urban transportation.; políticas socio-económicas; transporte urbano.; políticas sócio-econômicas; transporte urbano.

"Reinventing government" is not an exclusive concern of some post-industrialized societies. Latin America is not alien to this drama. Structural adjustment programs recommended to developing countries by international financiaI institutions have led to a reduction in public expenditure. to the privatization of numerous activities, ando at the same time. to worsening social conditions. The history of the countries of that region, since the aftermath of World War II, shows that the efforts to improve the national income did not take into account the situation of the lower social layers. There are some policies that join intrinsically both social and economic aspects. This article shows that this is the case 01' urban transportation policies, because they affect production and, at the same time, social welfare.