Synopses & Reviews
This timely volume brings together specialists on the reform of social security systems to analyze the similarities and differences of those health care and pension reforms that have taken place since the early 1990s and suggests possible gains through recent or contemplated revisions to those systems.
Synopsis
Economists and political scientists, split about equally between Latin and Anglo America, look for patterns in the structural reforms of social security, especially, health care and pensions, in the various countries of Latin America. They offer a theoretical context within which to analyze the main attributes of the reforms, their successes and failures, and recommendations for prospective reformers.
Table of Contents
Introduction : context and typology of reform models / Marâia Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- Chile : the politics of privatization / Silvia Borzutsky -- The Chilean pension system : evaluation, lessons, and challenges / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Alberto Arenas de Mesa -- Mexico : the politics of the system for retirement pensions / Juliâan F. Bertranou -- Social security reform in El Salvador / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Ricardo Câordova Macâias -- The new Argentine social security system : a mixed model / Ernesto Aldo Isuani and Jorge Antonio San Martino -- The pension system in Uruguay : a delayed reform / Jorge Papadâopulos -- The pension system reform in Peru : economic rationale versus political will / Marâia Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- The Colombian social security reform : between competition and solidarity / Miguel Eduardo Câardenas Rivera -- Chile : the effectiveness of the reform / Brian Cartin -- Health sector reform : a financial-service flow model and the Colombian case / Gerard M. La Forgia -- Health care reform in Brazil : phasing change / Maureen Lewis and Andrâe Medici -- Reforming the Brazilian pension system / Cheikh T. Kane -- Social security in Ecuador : mixed or substitutive reform / Rubâen M. Lo Vuolo and Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Poverty of social security in Guatemala : the need for structural reform / Marâia Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- Social security in Venezuela : diagnosis and reform / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Mariela Arenas -- Conclusion : conditioning factors, cross-country comparisons, and recommendations / Marâia Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague and Carmelo Mesa-Lago.