Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Gebundenes Buch

Reassembling Social Security

A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin Americapublished in Association with the Pan-American Health Organization

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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 or researcher in Argentina, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, United Kingdom and the United States, as well as a lecturer in 36 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. He is the author of 73 books/monographs and about 240 articles/chapters published in 8 languages in 33 countries, most of them on social security including pensions and healthcare. He has worked in all Latin America countries and several in the Caribbean, as well as in Germany, Egypt, Ghana 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), national and foreign foundations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 180mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 971g
• ISBN-13: 9780199233779
• ISBN-10: 0199233772
• Artikelnr.: 23574289