Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Building: Jones Hall in Room 100A
Location: uptown campus
Other Information: Greenleaf Conference Hall

In 1980-2007, 23 countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe, totally or partially privatized their former public pension systems; such structural reforms, however, endured serious flaws. Since 2008, four countries (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Hungary) implemented “re-reforms” that either shut down the private systems returning them to the public sphere or substantially increased the role of the state in them. The lecture will evaluate how the re-reforms have coped with such flaws based on several key social security features: coverage of the labor force, benefit sufficiency, social solidarity, gender equity, efficiency and administrative costs, workers’ participation in management, and financial sustainability. Mesa-Lago is the author of Re-Reforms of Privatized Pensions in the World: A Comparative Study of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Hungary (Munich: Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits-und Sozialrecht, 2013). 

Sponsored by: Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute

Admission: Free
Attendance: Open to the public
Open to: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate students, Parents, Prospective undergrads, Staff, Undergraduates, Visitors

Please RSVP by Monday, March 18, 2013 via email to kjones2@tulane.edu or via phone at 5048623141

For more information contact Kelly Jones via email to kjones2@tulane.edu or by phone at 5048623141

Additional information may be found at the event website at http://cipr.tulane.edu/articles/detail/1242/Carmelo-Mesa-Lago-to-lecture-on-Cuba-and-Pensions