Resumen

GANUZA, Enrique; LEON, Arturo  y  SAUMA, Pablo. Gasto público en servicios sociales básicos: la situación regional. Pap. poblac [online]. 2000, vol.6, n.24, pp.175-225. ISSN 2448-7147.

In this essay the social cost is analyzed -conceptualized from the perspective of the sustainable human development- it's consider like an investment which are made by 13 countries of the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the frame of the named Initiative 20/20, adopted in the World wide Summit for the Social Development, celebrated in Copenhagen in 1995, it maintains that it is possible to reach the universal cover of basic social services in the countries developing, if these will destine public budgets destined 20 per cents of their budgets public and developed countries another 20 percent of the official attendance for the development to social basic services. The headings that are analyzed are the total public social cost spendings, the cost in social basic services, some elements related to the proposals of resources reassignment to reach the propose goals in the matter and the paper of the official attendance for the development.