Historia Crítica

Hist. Crit. | eISSN 1900-6152 | ISSN 0121-1617

Much Action and a Distant Solution. Governmental Mechanisms of Social Protection in Bogotá, 1930-1945

No. 39E (2009-11-01)
  • Decsi Arévalo Hernández
https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit39E.2009.09

Abstract

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 persistance 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