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Pressure Groups, Stratification, and Inequality
A comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. Individual case studies of...
Examines changes in Cuban leadership, economy, and armed forces to explain its increased participation in world affairs. Views Cuban ties with Puerto ...
A Two-decade Appraisal
Economic analysis of economic conditions in socialist Cuba - examines revolutionary economic policies, sustained economic growth, (incl. Sugar, agricu...
A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America
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 labora...
Comparative Policy and Performance : Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica
How can we determine which economic model best provides for economic development and social welfare? In this major comparative work, noted economist C...
Toward Alleviating the Social Costs of Economic Reform
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Past Interpretations And Future Challenges
This book examines change within continuity and analyzes stability within revolution. It focuses on uneven rate of development among the political, ec...
More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country's labor force, currently make up the nonstate sector. These include self-empl...
Financing Social Security in Latin America
In 1990, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, the foremost authority on social security in Latin America, concluded that all of the region's programs were imperiled, es...
Latin American Experiences and Lessons
Research report, case studies of social security systems and health service programmes in Latin America - includes a comparison with the USA; explains...
Pragmatism and Institutionalization
The Case of Mexico
Essays on Politics and Economics
Anthology of essays comprising a comparison of politics and economics in socialist countries. Covers (1) theory, (incl. social indicators, classificat...
Past Interpretations and Future Challenges
Causes, Settlement, Effects, and Future
"Mesa-Lago and Pรฉrez-Lรณpez have achieved the rarest of feats: they have given us a dispassionate, data-rich, comparative, provocative, and policy-or...
Challenges and Ways Forward
Lessons and Policies
Written by a top scholar on social security in Latin America and the Caribbean, this book assesses the effects of the world economic crisis on social ...
Cuba and China-Vietnam and Their Impact on Social Protection
A new volume in the award winning University of Pittsburgh Press Latin American Studies Series...
Impact and Recommendations for Change
Assessing the Reforms
What led to the dramatic social and economic reforms introduced by Cubaยฟs president Raul Castro. How effective have those reforms been? And what obst...
Essays in volume 18 include discussions of Cuba's approach to the Latin American debt crisis, its two-century-old race problem and its impact on Cuba'...
promises and reality