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Université de Fribourg

The Political Economy of Universal Pensions in Bolivia

Müller, Katharina

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2016, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article: 1.2

While non-contributory pensions are spreading around the globe, Bolivia is still the only Latin American country with a universal old-age pension scheme. Originally designed twenty years ago and contested more than once, the benefit survived a political regime change from neo-liberalism to new developmentalism and features an interesting political economy. With the commodities boom coming to...

Université de Fribourg

Health and Old Age in Latin America and Africa : Introdution to the Issue

Künzler, Daniel

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2016, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article: 1.1

The remarkable dynamism of government welfare provision in Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean is embedded in a broader context. As a legacy of the colonial past, social protection for old age and health care was generally the privilege of the rather small group of formal sector workers. French colonialism emphasized an active role of the state in social protection and had a quite...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Fiscal Decentralisation: The Swiss Case

Price, Victoria Curzon

In: Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2003, vol. 13, no. 4, p. -