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More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country's labor force, currently comprise the non-state sector. Based on eighty in-depth interviews recently conducted in Cuba, this book captures actual voices from this evolving economic sector. The book offers fascinating insights into today's Cuban economy from the non-state sector.

What led to the dramatic social and economic reforms introduced by Cuba's president Raul Castro? How effective have those reforms been? And what obstacles does Castro face in overcoming the country's chronic socioeconomic woes? This addresses these questions, offering a comprehensive analysis of the president's efforts during his first six years in office.

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. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.

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. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.

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 security and welfare in the region. Drawing on the impact of and lessons from previous crises, Carmelo Mesa-Lago identifies the strengths and weakness of Latin American social security before the current global crisis. He evaluates the event's actual and potential effects on pensions, health care...

Cuba no sólo es la única nación comunista de las Américas, sino además uno de los últimos países que aún mantienen un sistema económico de mandato o de alta centralización de las decisiones. Sin embargo, el continuismo político no encuentra equivalente en el campo económico. Cuba ha experimentado múltiples modelos de organización económica y estrategias de desarrollo, oscilantes y con frecuencia contradictorios, desde la fase estalinista hasta...

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A comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America.

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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 ...