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This monograph evaluates the effects of the global financial-economic crisis on social security (pensions, health care, social assistance) in 25 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It focus on: coverage, sufficiency of benefits, social solidarity, gender equity, efficiency and administrative costs, and financial sustainability including v...
This article describes Latin America's social insurance systems for pension and health care in the context of the region's shift in labour with decreasing formal employment and expanding informality. The analysis demonstrates that social insurance coverage is higher where informality is lower and vice versa, identifies key explanatory factors for l...
A description in a comparative manner of the social security pensions and health care reforms implemented in the 20 countries of Latin America. Evaluation of the reforms results and impact on conventional social security principles, as well as testing on whether the reforms presumed effects have materialized. Based on 44 statistical tables and more...
In the past 25 years almost all 20 countries of Latin America have reformed their healthcare systems, but coverage by social insurance averages 53 per cent of the total population (less than the ILO minimum standard), ranges from 7 to 26 per cent in ten countries and has stagnated or decreased in at least eight, and access is insufficient. This art...
Chile pioneered a structural reform in Latin America that privatized its public pension system and influenced similar reforms in another nine countries. Twenty-five years later, this article evaluates the macroeconomic, microeconomic, and social effects of this reform in Chile and the other countries in the region, and extracts lessons from those e...
This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to provide a road map for policymakers in the region and othe...
