Do options exist? : the reform of pension and health care systems in Latin America / edited by María Amparo Cruz-Saco and Carmelo Mesa-Lago.
Contributor(s): Cruz Saco, María Amparo
| Mesa-Lago, Carmelo.
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TextSeries: Pitt Latin American series: Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1998General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 1 online resource (x, 444 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0585043922; 9780585043920.Other title: Reform of pension and health care systems in Latin America.Subject(s): Pensions -- Latin America | Social security -- Latin America | Health care reform -- Latin AmericaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 368 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge: | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| E-book | Davenport Library e-book | E-book | 368 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | mq607690 |
Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : context and typology of reform models / María 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 / Julián F. Bertranou -- Social security reform in El Salvador / Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Ricardo Córdova Macías -- 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 Papadópulos -- The pension system reform in Peru : economic rationale versus political will / María Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague -- The Colombian social security reform : between competition and solidarity / Miguel Eduardo Cárdenas 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 André Medici -- Reforming the Brazilian pension system / Cheikh T. Kane -- Social security in Ecuador : mixed or substitutive reform / Rubén M. Lo Vuolo and Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Poverty of social security in Guatemala : the need for structural reform / María 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 / María Amparo Cruz-Saco Oyague and Carmelo Mesa-Lago.
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.
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