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Despite more than twenty years of implementation of Conditional Cash Transfers (ccts) inequality and poverty remain being one of the main problems of Latin America. These programs seek to stimulate consumption and reduce poverty and have become the axis of articulation of social protection in most of the countries of the region, incorporating logics of resource management and financing, and new actors and discourses on poverty. This paper critically presents the recent literature on ccts and analyzes the trajectories and approaches of the programs. The paper also analyses changes and continuities in the perspectives on poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents a balance of the tendencies in social policies during the political cycles of Latin America between 2000 and 2017. For this purpose, we discuss specific cases in a general way, taking examples from different experiences to illustrate the main continuities and interruptions of social welfare in matters such as poverty and inequality. It is proposed that besides international factors and economic circumstances, political actors and their ideological tendencies have been an important factor in facilitating or hindering changes in matters of redistribution and social policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]