World Crisis Effects on Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons and Policies

Institute for the Study of the Americas

By Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Written by the top scholar on social security in Latin America and the Caribbean, this book assesses the effects of the world financial and economic crisis on social security and welfare in the region. Drawing on the impact of and lessons from previous crisis, it identifies the strengths and weakness of Latin American social security before the current global crisis, and evaluates its actual and potential effects on pensions, health care and social assistance programs, based on a taxonomy of three groups of countries. The few publications available on the crisis by international organizations, don’t deal in depth with this subject in the developing world.

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