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Author Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, 1934- author.

Title Reassembling social security : a survey of pensions and health care reforms in Latin America / Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 453 pages)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and index
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Subject Social security -- Latin America
Pensions -- Latin America
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
Pensions
Social security
Soziale Sicherheit
Rentenversicherung
Gesundheitspolitik
Wirtschaftsreform
Soziale Sicherheit -- Lateinamerika.
Sozialpolitik -- Lateinamerika.
Altersvorsorge.
Altersversicherung.
Gesundheitswesen.
Reform.
Soziale Sicherheit.
Rente.
Latin America
Lateinamerika.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191552816
019155281X