Abbreviations and Acronyms
| ADEPA | Argentine Association of Journalistic Entities |
| AESGPRI | Special Allocation from the General System of Participations for Indigenous Resguardos |
| AFIP | Federal Administration of Public Revenues |
| AFJP | Pension and Retirement Fund Administrators |
| AMIA | Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina |
| ANSES | National Social Security Administration |
| ARI | Affirmation for an Egalitarian Republic |
| ATP | Emergency Assistance for Work and Production |
| AUH | Asignación Universal por Hijo |
| BNC | Basic Needs Cost |
| BNDES | National Bank for Economic and Social Development |
| BPC | Continuous Cash Benefit |
| BSP | Poverty Overcoming Benefit |
| CadÚnico | Unified Registry |
| CAPS | Primary Health Care Centres |
| CEDAW | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CEF | Caixa Econômica Federal |
| CELADE | Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre |
| CGT | General Confederation of Labour |
| CLT | Consolidation of Labour Laws |
| CNI | National Confederation of Industry |
| Coninagro | Intercooperative Agrarian Confederation |
| CONSEA | National Council for Food Security |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRA | Argentine Rural Confederations |
| CRAS | Social Assistance Reference Centres |
| CREAS | Specialised Social Assistance Reference Centres |
| CTA | Argentine Workers’ Central |
| CTEP | Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy |
| CUS | Universal Health Coverage |
| DNU | National and Urgency Decree |
| ECLAC | Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| EDIPCI | Allocations for the Comprehensive Development of Indigenous Peoples and Communities |
| EZLN | Zapatista Army of National Liberation |
| FAO | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation |
| FAT | Workers’ Support Fund |
| FIES | Student Financing Fund |
| FIESP | São Paulo State Federation of Industries |
| FINCINI | Fund for Citizen Income for Children |
| FGTS | Time of Service Guarantee Fund |
| FOPEA | Forum of Argentine Journalism |
| FpV | Frente para la Victoria |
| FRENAPO | National Front Against Poverty |
| FREPASO | Front for a Country in Solidarity |
| Funpresp | Complementary Pension Fund for Public Servants |
| GDI | Gender Development Index |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GII | Gender Inequality Index |
| GNI | Gross National Income |
| GSNI | Gender Social Norms Index |
| HDI | Human Development Index |
| IACHR | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| IBGE | Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics |
| IDB | Inter-American Development Bank |
| IFE | Emergency Family Income |
| IGD | Decentralised Management Index |
| IHDI | Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index |
| ILO | International Labour Organisation |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INAES | National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy |
| INCRA | National Institute of Colonisation and Agrarian Reform |
| INDEC | National Institute of Statistics and Censuses |
| INDERT | National Institute for Rural and Land Development |
| INRA | National Institute for Agrarian Reform |
| INSS | National Institute of Social Security |
| INTI | National Land Institute |
| IOF | Tax on Financial Transactions |
| IPEA | Institute for Applied Economic Research |
| IPI | Industrialised Products Tax |
| ISI | Import Substitution Industrialisation |
| LOAS | Organic Law of Social Assistance |
| MBL | Free Brazil Movement |
| MCMV | My House, My Life (Minha Casa, Minha Vida) |
| MDA | Ministry of Agrarian Development |
| MDB | Brazilian Democratic Movement |
| MDGs | Millennium Development Goals |
| MEC | Ministry of Education and Culture |
| MPI | Multidimensional Poverty Index |
| MST | Landless Workers’ Movement |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NGOs | Non-Governmental Organisations |
| OAS | Organisation of American States |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PAA | Food Acquisition Programme |
| PAT | Worker Food Programme |
| PBF | Bolsa Família Programme |
| PBM | Greater Brazil Plan |
| PBSM | Brazil Without Extreme Poverty Plan |
| PBU | Universal Basic Benefit |
| PCA | Food Card Programme |
| PEC | Constitutional Amendment Proposal |
| PETI | Child Labor Eradication Programme |
| PIL | Logistics Investment Programme |
| PJ | Justicialist Party |
| PJJHD | Unemployed Heads of Household Programme |
| PNAD | National Household Sample Survey |
| PNAD Contínua | Continuous National Household Sample Survey |
| PNMPO | National Programme for Oriented Productive Microcredit |
| PPP | Purchasing Power Parity |
| PRIST-AT | Social Income with Work Programme Argentina Works |
| PRO | Propuesta Republicana |
| Prodea | Emergency Food Distribution Programme |
| Pronager | National Programme for Employment and Income Generation in Poverty Areas |
| PRONATEC | National Programme for Access to Technical Education and Employment |
| Prouni | University for All Programme |
| PSDB | Brazilian Social Democracy Party |
| PSL | Social Liberal Party |
| PT | Workers’ Party |
| PUAM | Universal Pension for Older Adults |
| RBC | Basic Citizenship Income |
| REDAIC | Argentine Network for Citizen Income |
| REPRO | Programme for Recovery and Productive Sustainability |
| RI | Income Reinforcement |
| RIGI | Regime of Incentives for Major Investments |
| SEDLAC | Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean |
| SENARC | National Secretariat for Citizenship Income |
| SGI | General System of Participations |
| SIJP | Integrated Retirement and Pension System |
| SIPA | Integrated Argentine Pension System |
| SIPROF | Integrated Family Protection System |
| SUAS | Unified Social Assistance System |
| SUS | Unified Health System |
| UBN | Unsatisfied Basic Needs |
| UBPCs | Basic Units of Cooperative Production |
| UBS | Primary Health Unit |
| UCR | Radical Civic Union |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children’s Fund |
| U.S. | United States of America |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| YPF | Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales |