This event is most important for the Social Network of Latin America and the Caribbean. The network has allowed La Red Social to cooperate among various countries in the struggle against poverty. It recently also completed an important study of the potentials and the limitations of social funds. Social funds, created as instruments of the social policy pursued by each country, were designed to mobilize resources rapidly for the financing of social action programs. They appeared in Latin America and the Carib- bean in the last decade as a response to the economic crisis of the 1980s, the imbalances induced by adjustment policies and the impacts of adjustment policies.
