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Record Nr.

UNISA996247976203316

Autore

Mesa-Lago Carmelo <1934->

Titolo

Reassembling social security : a survey of pensions and health care reforms in Latin America / / Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-82557-3

9786611825577

0-19-155281-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Disciplina

361.98

Soggetti

Social security - Latin America

Pensions - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-411) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Appendices; Abbreviations; PART I. INTRODUCTION: THE STATE OF PENSION AND HEALTH CARE IN THE REGION BEFORE THE REFORMS; PART II. PENSION REFORMS AND THEIR EFFECTS; PART III. HEALTH CARE REFORMS AND THEIR EFFECTS; PART IV. TOWARDS A BETTER SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE FUTURE; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems. - ;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