Quantitative Social Science Research on Latin America

Social Policy in Latin America

This project was conceived more as a collaborative study than as comparative research in the strict sense. The emphasis was on national studies, not on comparison among countries. Given the exploratory nature of the research, each national study had great freedom to define, conceptually and empirically, the "field" of social policy, thus acknowledging the complexity and ubiquity of the concept ...

Health research in Latin America.

1 Villar J, Carolli G, Wojdyla D, et al, for the WHO Antenatal Care Trial Research Group. Preeclampsia, gestational hypertension and intrauterine growth restriction, related or independent conditions? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006; 194: 921–31. 2 Sibai BM, Caritis S, Hauth J, for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. What we have learned ...

Social Investment in Latin America

Social Security privatization in Latin America.

The new, partially privatized social security system adopted by Chile in 1981 has attracted attention in many parts of the world. Since then, a number of Latin American countries have implemented the Chilean model, with some variations: either with a single- or multi-tier system, or with a period of transition to take care of those in the labor force at the time of the change. The single-tier v...

And Social Protection in Latin America