Social Investment in Latin America

Employment and Social Investment Funds in Latin America

A snapshot of gene therapy in Latin America

Gene therapy attempts the insertion and expression of exogenous genetic material in cells for therapeutic purposes. Conceived in the 1960s, gene therapy reached its first clinical trial at the end of the 1980s and by December 2013 around 600 genuine open clinical trials of gene therapy were registered at NIH Clinical Trials Database. Here, we summarize the current efforts towards the developmen...

Next generation of individual account pension reforms in Latin America.

Latin America led the world in introducing individual retirement accounts intended to complement or replace defined benefit state-sponsored, pay-as-you-go systems. After Chile implemented the first system in 1981, a number of other Latin American countries incorporated privately managed individual accounts as part of their retirement income systems beginning in the 1990s. This article examines ...

Reassessing Pension Reform in Chile and Other Countries in Latin America1

Chile has been a world pioneer in the structural reform of social security pensions and influenced similar changes in Latin America and Eastern Europe, as well as the programs of international financial organizations and the world debate on the subject. More than two decades have elapsed since the Chilean reform was implemented and several other countries in Latin America have accumulated impor...

Foreign direct investment in the financial sector - experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America - June 2005

No 25 Foreign direct investment in the financial sector-experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America Summary of follow-up workshops to the CGFS report, " Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging economies " June 2005 Copies of publications are available from: