Reassembling social security
Subtitle: a survey of pensions and health care reforms in Latin America
By: Carmelo Mesa-Lago.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780199233779
Subjects: Social security -- Latin America; Pensions -- Latin America
Description: "The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. From the reforms that took place in Chile in 1981, most pension and health care systems in the region have seen reform, and been fully or partially privatized. Many other countries considering reform of their own systems have been influenced by the policies implemented in Latin America." "Yet despite the importance and influence of these reforms, until now there has not been an integrated and comprehensive analysis of the changes and their effects. This book is the result of four years of painstaking work, data collection, field research and international collaboration, and so fills the vacuum in the literature with a systematic comparison of pension and healthcare reforms in the 20 Latin American countries." "This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems, and as such will be of importance to academics and researchers interested in social security and welfare policy, pensions, health care, and public policy;Social security, pension, and health care policymakers; and social security, pension, and health care consultants and practitioners."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-411) and index.