"DOCUMENTS, PLEASE" Advances in Social Protection and Birth Certification in the Developing World
"DOCUMENTS, PLEASE" Advances in Social Protection and Birth Certification in the Developing World
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DOI：
10.1017/s0043887115000465
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发表时间：
2016-04-01
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5
通讯作者：
Brill, Robert
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作者：
Hunter, Wendy;Brill, Robert
出生证明对于行使公民身份至关重要，但发展中国家的大量穷人没有其存在的正式记录。很少有学术研究分析政府例行记录和认证出生的条件，而那些确实进行的情况还有很多需要解释的地方，包括为什么经济发展水平处于中低水平的非极权政府会优先考虑出生登记。本文提请人们注意福利建设举措对身份证明文件的推动力。实证研究的重点是当代拉丁美洲，自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，制度化社会保护的扩展增加了出生登记的需求和供给，提高了穷人的生活机会，并在此过程中建设了国家基础设施。随着福利国家在其他发展中地区的形成，作者的论点有望具有更广泛的适用性。
A birth certificate is essential to exercising citizenship, yet vast numbers of poor people in developing countries have no official record of their existence. Few academic studies analyze the conditions under which governments come to document and certify births routinely, and those that do leave much to be explained, including why nontotalitarian governments at low to middle levels of economic development come to prioritize birth registration. This article draws attention to the impetus that welfare-building initiatives give to identity documentation. The empirical focus is on contemporary Latin America, where extensions in institutionalized social protection since the 1990s have increased the demand for and supply of birth registration, raising the life chances of the poor and building state infrastructure in the process. The authors' argument promises to have broader applicability as welfare states form in other developing regions.