Social policies can transform the lives of the poor and marginalized, yet inequitable
implementation often limits their access. Uneven Social Policies shifts the focus of welfare …

In the last two decades, striking correlations in the location and timing of structural pension
reforms have raised important questions about the kind of information used by policy makers …

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the fastest aging geographic regions in the
developing world. The growth in the percentage of elderly (the number of those aged 65 and …

In the past two decades of the 20th century, governments around the world began to
apportion greater responsibility for old-age income provision to individuals and market …

Los estudios sobre la pobreza en América Latina SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
vol.71 número especial Presentación Fronteras y convergencias disciplinarias índice de autores …

Why do some democracies adopt effective development policies while others remain mired
in stagnation or suffer cyclic crises? Previous studies have emphasized poverty or …

The article summarizes three of the data collection studies that can assist researchers in
examining population aging processes in the Latin America and Caribbean region with an …

This article shows how modified European power resources theories can be applied to Latin
America to explain differences in the depth of policy reforms. It innovates on previous work …

The public-private mix in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico was very similar until the early 1980s
when Chile undertook health care privatization as part of comprehensive health care reform …

While financial globalization has created powerful incentives for Latin American
governments to privatize old age pension systems, reliance on short-term capital flows has …