Los sistemas de protección social enfrentan serios descalces
entre la necesidad y la disponibilidad de recursos financieros
para cubrir las demandas. Por ello, tanto la contención de costos
como la necesidad de aumentar la cobertura poblacional de
los sistemas son elementos de cualquier propuesta de reforma.
Para avanzar hacia la universalidad de los beneficios hay que
fortalecer simultáneamente la eficiencia y la solidaridad. Una
estrategia de reforma no sólo debe considerar las restricciones
financieras impuestas desde la macroeconomía, sino también
que el esquema elegido puede acarrear fuer…
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 of
cost restraint as well as measures to increase the population
coverage of systems. Efficiency and solidarity must improve
together if progress is to be made towards universality of
benefits. Any reform strategy needs to consider not only the
financial constraints imposed by the macroeconomy, but also
the heavy drain on financial resources and the effects on the
fiscal ac…
Foreword The 1990s were unquestionably a time of transition and reorientation in several aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean's economic, social and political development. As in any period with these characteristics, the effects of long-standing processes mingled and interacted with incipient change. When the decade ended, ECLAC wished to contribute to the evaluation of the main events that marked the consolidation of reform in the region, recognizing of course that the speed of progress varied from country to country and from sector to sector. This publication offers an analysis of…
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