Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America

Mesa-Lago, Carmelo

ISBN 10: 0199644616 / ISBN 13: 9780199644612

Published by Oxford University Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199644616
• ISBN 13: 9780199644612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 30 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Economics & Government

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Synopsis

The reform of social security pensions and health care 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.

About the Author

Carmelo Mesa-Lago is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and has been a visiting professor, researcher or lecturer in 40 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. He is the author of 82 books/monographs and 275 articles/chapters published in 7 languages in 34 countries, most of them on the Cuban economy and social welfare, as well as in social security. He has worked in all Latin American countries and several in the Caribbean, as well as in Germany, Egypt, Ghana, Philippines and Thailand, as a regional advisor for ECLAC, a consultant with the ILO, the International Social Security Association (ISSA), PAHO, UNRISD, UNDP, and other U.N. branches, as well as most international financial organizations (World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank), and national and foreign foundations. A former President of the Latin American Studies Association, he has been awarded: the inaugural ILO International Prize on Decent Work  (shared with Nelson Mandela), the the Alexander Von Humbolt Stiftung Senior Prize and collaborative research grants, two Fulbright Senior Awards, Arthur Whitaker and Hoover Institution Prizes, University of Pittsburgh Senior Research Prize, Annual Recognition from the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Homage from OISS and CISS, homage from the Institute of Cuban Studies and journal Encuentro (for life work on Cuba), and finalist in Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize on Social Sciences. He is a Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of editorial boards of seven academic journals, and has received grants from the Ford, Heinz, Kellogg, Mellon, Reynolds, Rockefeller, Tinker and Inter-American Foundations, SSRC, NSF,  Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, Japan Foundation and US-Spain Commission for Academic Exchange. Choice have selected several of his books as "outstanding."