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.

 María Amparo Cruz Saco Oyague is the Lenore Tingle Howard Professor of Economics at Connecticut College. She is the author of several research articles in professional journals and books, most notably La macroeconomía de una economía abierta.  She is also a consultant for international multilateral organizations, including the InterAmerican Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Acuerdo de Cartagena, and official agencies such as the government of Paraguay and vice president of development at the Corporacíon Financiera de Desarrollo in Peru.

Carmelo Mesa-Lago is Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of forty books and over one hundred articles on Latin America's social security and health care and the Cuban economy. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, the ILO, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Inter-American Foundation, USAID, UNCTAD, UNDP, the OAS, PAHO, and others. He has been the recipient of the Arthur Whitaker Prize, the Hoover Institution Prize, and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Prize.