Abstract

AREVALO HERNANDEZ, Decsi. MUCH ACTION AND A DISTANT SOLUTION: GOVERNMENTAL MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN BOGOTÁ, 1930-1945. hist.crit. [online]. 2009, n.39, suppl.1, pp.166-186. ISSN 0121-1617.

This article seeks to explain the paradox, in Bogotá during the Liberal Republic, in which there was both economic growth and a significant group of entities attending to the poor and yet the persistence of poverty. After examining the social-protection measures at both the national and city level, the article concludes that the central state did not adequately regulate the labor market and the city developed scattered and meritocratic-based paliative measures that were far from the universal policies needed to overcome poverty.

Keywords : Social Protection; Bogotá; Public Policy; Hygiene; Poverty; Liberal Republic.

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