How can we determine which economic model best provides for economic development and social welfare? In this major comparative work, noted economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago analyzes three Latin American countries with divergent economic systems: Chile (a market economy), Cuba (socialist), and Costa Rica (mixed). He examines their economic and social policies, shows how these policies affect performance based on a set of socioeconomic variables, and ranks the countries among themselves (using new techniques) and in comparison with international indicators. The time frame of the study embraces...
How can we determine which economic model best provides for economic development and social welfare? In this major comparative work, noted economis...
"Mesa-Lago and Perez-Lopez have achieved the rarest of feats: they have given us a dispassionate, data-rich, comparative, provocative, and policy-oriented analysis of Cuba s aborted economic reforms of the last decade."--Ted Henken, Baruch College, CUNY"The most calm and careful analysis yet of Cuba in 2005."--Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University "An excellent contribution to the economic literature in Cuba . . . A must read for scholars interested in Cuban affairs, as well as for those with broader concerns such as U.S. foreign policy and general prescriptions for countries...
"Mesa-Lago and Perez-Lopez have achieved the rarest of feats: they have given us a dispassionate, data-rich, comparative, provocative, and policy-orie...
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. From the reforms that took place in Chile in 1981, most pension and health care systems in the region have seen reform, and been fully or partially privatized. Many other countries considering reform of their own systems have been influenced by the policies implemented in Latin America. Yet despite the importance and influence of these reforms, until now there has not been an integrated and...
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...
A comprehensive study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. Individual case studies of Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Argentina, and Mexico are presented, that provide a historical analysis of social security policy, the pressure groups involved, the present structure of the systems, and a statistical examination of the inequality among these pressure groups.
A comprehensive study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. Individual case studies of Chile, Uruguay, P...
This timely volume brings together specialists on the reform of social security systems to analyze the similarities and differences of those health care and pension reforms that have taken place since the early 1990s and suggests possible gains through recent or contemplated revisions to those systems.
This timely volume brings together specialists on the reform of social security systems to analyze the similarities and differences of those health ca...
Cuba has been transformed more radically within one decade than almost any society in recent history. Yet the Cuban Revolution is poorly understood abroad because of its physical and political isolation, the controversies between adherents of the old and new regimes, and the murky skirmishes of the cold war. This collection of essays is a comprehensive and authoritative study of almost all major aspects of socialist Cuba. It draws together the talents of the ablest group of Cuban specialists ever represented in a single volume. "
Cuba has been transformed more radically within one decade than almost any society in recent history. Yet the Cuban Revolution is poorly understood...
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. From the reforms that took place in Chile in 1981, most pension and health care systems in the region have seen reform, and been fully or partially privatized. Many other countries considering reform of their own systems have been influenced by the policies implemented in Latin America. Yet despite the importance and influence of these reforms, until now there has not been an integrated and comprehensive...
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...
This is the first volume of "Cuban Studies" as an annual book publication; it was previously published as a journal by the University of Pittsburgh s Center for Latin American Studies. A special collection of articles, edited by Enrico Mario Santi, focuses on the emergence of Cuban identity and nationality. Others discuss the impact of Cuba s new economic planning system since 1976 and the problems facing joint ventures in Cuba, while the concept of Cubanology is scrutinized in a spirited interchange of ideas in the Debate section."
This is the first volume of "Cuban Studies" as an annual book publication; it was previously published as a journal by the University of Pittsburgh s ...
Carmelo Mesa-Lago Virginia R. Dominguez Yolanda Prieto
The feature section of Cuban Studies 17 focuses on gender inequality. Topics include ideological limitations on the study of gender, women as workers in pre- and postrevolutionary Cuba and as emigres in the United States, and female characters in Cuban novels, 1950-1967. A section on Afro-Cubanism explores the African ethnologic and linguistic roots of Cuban blacks and includes a literary analysis of Fernando Ortiz s "Los negros brujos." Research Notes describes an opinion survey on U.S. policy toward Cuba in the House of Representatives and the relation between size and efficiency in Cuban...
The feature section of Cuban Studies 17 focuses on gender inequality. Topics include ideological limitations on the study of gender, women as workers ...