Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America
Title | Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Indermit S. Gill |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2004-10-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0821383752 |
Empirical analysis of two decades of pioneering pension and social security reform in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that much has been achieved, but that critical challenges remain. In tackling this unfinished agenda, a great deal can be learned from the reform experience of countries in the region. 'Keeping the Promise,' produced by the chief economist's office for the Latin America and Caribbean region at the World Bank, evaluates policy reforms in 12 countries, points to successes and shortcomings, and proposes priorities and options for future reform.
Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas
Title | Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Kay |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199226806 |
Provides an analysis of pension reform in all the major countries in the Americas, including successes and failures.
A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean
Title | A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Carolin A. Crabbe |
Publisher | IDB |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1597820202 |
Towards Universal Social Protection
Title | Towards Universal Social Protection PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Cecchini |
Publisher | UN |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This book reflects on the public policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks that are taking a rights-based approach to expanding social protection coverage and benefits in Latin America, with a view to achieving universal coverage. Its discussion of the policy tools and programmes pursued in the region aims to provide the reader with technical and programmatic insights for assembling and coordinating public policies within consistent and sustainable social protection systems. The combination of normative orientations and stock of technical knowledge, together with advances regarding the rights-based approach to social protection within a life cycle framework, afford the reader not only a tool box of specific social protection instruments, but also an in-depth examination of related political economy aspects.
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion
Title | Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion PDF eBook |
Author | Kurt Weyland |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009-02-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1400828066 |
Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have privatized their social security systems, including Bolivia and El Salvador, lack some of the preconditions necessary to do so successfully. In a major step beyond conventional rational-choice accounts of policy decision-making, this book demonstrates that bounded--not full--rationality drives the spread of innovations across countries. When seeking solutions to domestic problems, decision-makers often consider foreign models, sometimes promoted by development institutions like the World Bank. But, as Kurt Weyland argues, policymakers apply inferential shortcuts at the risk of distortions and biases. Through an in-depth analysis of pension and health reform in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Peru, Weyland demonstrates that decision-makers are captivated by neat, bold, cognitively available models. And rather than thoroughly assessing the costs and benefits of external models, they draw excessively firm conclusions from limited data and overextrapolate from spurts of success or failure. Indications of initial success can thus trigger an upsurge of policy diffusion.
Social Security
Title | Social Security PDF eBook |
Author | Paul O. Deaven |
Publisher | Nova Publishers |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781604562439 |
Social Security, in the United States, currently refers to the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original Social Security Act[1] and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare or social insurance programs. The larger and better known initiatives of the program are: Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; Unemployment Insurance; Temporary Assistance to Needy Families; Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled (Medicare); Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs (Medicaid); State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Social Security in the United States is a social insurance program funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). The term, in everyday speech, is used only to refer to the benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death, which are the four main benefits provided by traditional private-sector pension plans. By dollars paid, the U.S. Social Security program is the largest government program in the world. Largely because of solvency questions ranging from immediate crisis to large projected future shortfalls, reform of the Social Security system has been a major political issue for more than three decades. This book presents the latest issues and developments related to this program.
Promessas Não Cumpridas
Title | Promessas Não Cumpridas PDF eBook |
Author | Inter-American Dialogue (Organization) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Cooperation |
ISBN | 9781733727617 |
The volume takes a broad view of recent social, political, and economic developments in Latin America. It contains six essays, focused on salient and cross-cutting themes, that try to construct a thread or narrative about the highly diverse region, highlighting its main idiosyncrasies and analyzing where it might be headed in coming years. While the essays recognize considerable advances, they also point out setbacks and missed opportunities that have stood in the way of sustained progress. Strengthening state capacity emerges as a significant challenge.