Contents
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part 1 - Reforms in Place: Pensions
2. Chile: The Politics of Privatization
3. The Chilean Pension System: Evaluation, Lessons, and Challenges
4. Mexico: The Politics of the System for Retirement Pensions
5. Social Security Refosrm in El Salvador
6. The New Argentine Social Security System: A Mixed Model
7. The Pension System in Uruguay: A Delayed Reform
8. The Pension System Reform in Peru: Economic Raqtionale Versus Political Will
9. The Colombian Social Security Reform: Between Competition and Solidarity
Part 2 - Reforms in Place: Health Care
10. Chile: The Effectiveness of the Reform
11. Health Sector Reform: A Financial-Service Flow Model and the Colombian Case
12. Health Care Reform in Brazil: Phasing Change
Part 3 - Reforms Under Study
13. Refroming the Brazilian Pension System
14. Social Security in Ecuador: Mixed or Substitutive Reform
15. Poverty of Social Security in Guatemala: The Need for a Structural Reform
16. Social Security in Venezuela: Diagnosis and Reform
17. Conclusion: Conditioning Factors, Cross-Country Comparisons, and Recommendations
Contributors
Index