En este informe se estudia la evolución del sistema de pensiones de El Salvador en el período reciente analizando su institucionalidad, su gasto público y su sostenibilidad financiera. Forma parte de un proyecto de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) que busca...

A description in a comparative manner of the social security pensions and health care reforms implemented in the 20 countries of Latin America. Evaluation of the reforms results and impact on conventional social security principles, as well as testing on whether the reforms presumed effects have...

At the start of the 1980s, Chile pioneered in Latin America the implementation of structural reforms in social insurance pensions and health care that totally or partially privatized such programs and influenced similar changes in the region and else where. The reforms were implemented without a...

This article describes Latin America's social insurance systems for pension and health care in the context of the region's shift in labour with decreasing formal employment and expanding informality. The analysis demonstrates that social insurance coverage is higher where informality is lower...

In 1980-2005, 11 Latin American countries (out of a total of 20) implemented structural reforms ("privatization") in their pension systems, totally or partially shifting them from defined benefit, PAYG, and public administration toward defined contribution, fully funded financing, and private...

Chile pioneered a structural reform in Latin America that privatized its public pension system and influenced similar reforms in another nine countries. Twenty-five years later, this article evaluates the macroeconomic, microeconomic, and social effects of this reform in Chile and the other...