Carmelo Mesa-Lago, World Crisis Effects on Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons and Policies

摘要

Evaluating the impact of the global financial crisis that began in 2008 is still complicated as there are not enough data available and we do not know how economic conditions will evolve in the near future, yet this evaluation is precisely the task that Carmelo Mesa-Lago attempts in this short but informative and ambitious book published by the London-based Institute for the Study of the Americas. The book aims to determine the impact of the crisis on social security (health and pensions) inrnLatin America and offer some policy recommendations.