Foreword The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999-2000 is the fifty-second edition in this series and incorporates a number of...
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The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of globalization on the labour market and social stratification. It is generally held that...
This article analyses the behaviour of the Colombian labour market and the changes it underwent during the 1990s. It begins by outlining the...
From the early decades of the twentieth century onward, the level of equity achieved in Uruguay, and the sophistication of its social welfare...
This paper will examine the effects of population ageing on the medium- and long-term evolution of pension systems in Latin America and the...
Most educational investment is based on untested or partially tested assumptions about the cost-effectiveness of a given course of action. Indeed...
A great deal of effort has been put into education reform in Latin America since the early 1990s. Extending the coverage of educational...
The 1999-2000 edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America examines the growing social vulnerability of the population, the main features of...
This document discusses the relevance, strengths and limitations of social indicators. Difficulties encountered in the analysis of such data in...
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This document looks at seven major indicators of poverty in the region: infant mortality; malnutrition; communicable diseases;...
Abstract This paper analyzes the recent development of pension funds in Brazil in the 1990s (and especially in the second half of this decade). It...
Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability, Brazil's urban income distributions in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively...
The subject-matter of this article lies at the crossroads between the literature on technological change and that on industrial dynamics. The...
This Summary of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999-2000 is the first
chapter of the Survey, and is being published...
Background In its resolution 47/5 of 16 October 1992, the General Assembly decided to observe the year 1999 as the International Year of Older...