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Shaping the future of social protection: access, financing and solidarity: summary
(ECLAC, 2006-03)
Shaping the Future of Social Protection: Access, Financing and Solidarity has been prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for presentation at the thirty-first session of the ...
The health insurance market: lessons on the conflict between equivalence and solidarity
(2012-12)
Health-care systems are highly diverse, sometimes even sharing few basic aspects of design. In developing countries, demographic profiles, poverty, the labour market and public finances are such that a comprehensive approach ...
Reform to health system financing in Chile
(1999-12)
The reforms made in the early 1980s profoundly changed the structure and functioning of the health sector in Chile in both the private and the public subsectors. In spite of the considerable advances made since 1990, ...
Shaping the future of social protection: access, financing and solidarity
(ECLAC, 2006-03)
Since the early 1990s, ECLAC has been advocating a new development paradigm that is better suited to a globalized world of open economies. While retaining the Commission's longstanding focus on seeking out ...
Reforming health-care management in Latin America
(2001-08)
Following a conceptual analysis of the term "quasi-market", this article will look at four national efforts to reform health-care management in what can be regarded, in respect of the degree of solidarity and universality ...
The role of insurance in social protection
(2003-12)
Social protection systems have to cope with large
discrepancies between the financing needed to cover demand
and the resources actually available. For this reason, it is
necessary for any reform proposal to include elements ...
Social vulnerability, insurance and risk diversification in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2003-08)
Insurance policies are required, along with other measures, to deal with the magnitude and depth of social and economic risk in Latin America. The peculiarities of insurance markets (such as the constraints of the pricing ...