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Social Security in Latin America
Pressure Groups, Stratification, and Inequality
Any social scientist who consciously sets out to explore, to understand, and to compare the social security systems of five Latin American nations deserves simultaneously to be encouraged and cautioned. . . . Yet Carmelo Mesa-Lago has not only undertaken the job; he has done so thoroughly, rigorously, and usefully. Nor is his study simply descriptive; on the contrary, it is a truly comparative exercise that presents enormous amounts of detail on each country and then compares them vis-ˆ-vis degree, scope, and depth of coverage.
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Carmelo Mesa-Lago is distinguished service professor emeritus of economics and Latin American studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published about 90 books in seven languages in 39 countries and received many awards, including the ILO International Prize on Decent Work (shared with Nelson Mandela) for his work on social protection in the world.
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