Although since 1974, under pressure of the new trends in the world economy, public financing began gradually to lose its relative importance for Latin American countries, there seems to persist an obvious demand for bodies such as the Inter-American Development Bank. In the author's view, the...

This article describes the most recent pension reforms in Argentina and Chile. The previous reforms, implemented in the 1980s and 1990s,aimed to improve long-term fiscal sustainability and institutional design of the systems, shifting part of the social and economic risks away fromthe State and...

Este articulo es una sintesis de un estudio mas extenso que la CEPAL encargo al autor sobre la situacion financiera de la seguridad social en America Latina, que abarcaba a los 20 paises latinoamericanos, agrupandolos de acuerdo con sus semejanzas y diferencias y sus tendencias en materia de...