Carmelo Mesa‐lago

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ID3995595
NOMBRECarmelo Mesa‐lago
NOMBRESCarmelo
APELLIDOMesa‐lago
FIRMALAGO C M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Pittsburgh
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS72
TOTAL DE CITAS170
TOTAL COMO AUTOR72
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1967
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H8

  • Evaluation of Economic-Social Performance of Two Socialist Economic Models

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLELatin American Research Review2023

    This article compares and evaluates performance of two main current socialist economic-social models. One is Cuba’s central plan characterized by state large enterprises predominant over the market and private property, with mild market-oriented structural reforms that are ineffective in generating sustainable socioeconomic development. The other model is the successful Sino-Vietnamese “socialist market,” typified by small, medium, and some large…

  • The financial sustainability of public pensions in Cuba

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lago, Carla Moreno et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Security…2022Citada por: 1

    This article analyses Cuba’s pension system from 2006–2021 with respect to its financial and actuarial sustainability and impact on the population. It includes discussion of the ageing population; the sharp cut in social expenditures since 2009; the deficit in pension financing and the impact of the 2008 parametric reform; the devaluation of pensions; structural reforms and the expansion of poverty and the curtailing of social assistance; the imp…

  • Pension coverage in Latin America

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lago, Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Security…2021Citada por: 3

    Using household surveys from 17 Latin American countries over 2009–2018, we analyze contributory pension coverage for the economically active population (EAP) and contributory/non‐contributory pension coverage for older persons. Nine countries have “private” and eight have “public” pension systems. Inequalities in gender, income, education, location and firm size affect both coverage of the EAP and the elderly. Rather than being affected by the t…

  • Healthcare in Cuba

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lago et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 10

    This article assumes a balanced position between two contrasting views regarding the accessibility, quality, efficiency and financial sustainability of the Cuban healthcare system. It evaluates those issues in the 2006-20 period by identifying strengths and weaknesses based on a comprehensive statistical compilation of health indicators, physical infrastructure trends, availability of physicians and other elements to assess the system's long-term…

  • Voices of Change in Cuba from the Non-State Sector

    Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoBOOKVoices of Change in Cuba from the…2018

  • The Emerging Non-State Sector in Cuba's Economy

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLELatin American Research Review2017

    This essay reviews the following works:Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy. By Richard E. Feinberg. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 264. $22.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780815727675.Miradas a la economía cubana: Análisis del sector no estatal. Edited by Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva and Ricardo Torres. La Habana: Editorial Caminos, 2015. Pp. 163. $5, paper. ISBN: 9789593031080.Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Pol…

  • Pension reforms in Chile and social security principles, 1981–2015

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lago, Fabio BertranouARTICLEInternational Social Security…2016Citada por: 2

    Chile pioneered in Latin America not only the introduction of social security pensions, but the structural reform that privatized them and a process of “re‐reform” implementing key improvements. A Presidential Commission in Chile, appointed in 2014 to evaluate reform progress and remaining problems in the pension system, released its report in September 2015. In light of the Commission's findings, the article assesses Chile's compliance with Inte…

  • Reformas Estructurales y Re-reformas de Pensiones, y sus Efectos en el Bienestar Social

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEPolítica y Sociedad2015Citada por: 3Referencias: 3

    El artículo primero resume las reformas estructurales de pensiones (privatización total o parcial) en América Latina y Europa Central y Oriental, identificando sus ventajas y desventajas, así como del emergente proceso internacional de re-reforma de pensiones con un mayor rol del Estado. Segundo, escoge a Chile como caso de estudio, por ser pionero en el mundo en ambas reformas; describe las características y efectos en el bienestar social, tanto…

  • Social Assistance in Developing Countries By Armando Barrientos

    Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2014

  • Cuba Under Raúl Castro

    Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lago et al.BOOKCuba Under Raúl Castro2013

    What led to the dramatic social and economic reforms introduced by Cuba's president Raúl Castro? How effective have those reforms been? And what obstacles does Castro face in overcoming the country's chronic socioeconomic woes? Cuba Under Raúl Castro addresses these questions, offering a comprehensive analysis of the president's efforts during his first six years in office

  • The performance of social security contributory and tax‐financed pensions in Central America, and the effects of the global crisis

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEInternational Social Security…2012Citada por: 1

    Over the last 30 years, Latin America has pioneered structural pension reforms. This article focuses on a representative regional sample of seven Central American countries with diverse levels of development (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) studying contributory and tax‐financed pensions as well as recent pension reforms. It comparatively assesses system performance regarding five social security princi…

  • Balance económico-social de 50 años de Revolución en Cuba

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEAMÉRICA LATINA HOY2010Citada por: 2

    Este trabajo sintetiza los cambios de la política económica cubana entre 1958 y 2008; explica las dificultades para contrastar indicadores en los dos años e introduce técnicas para enfrentarlas; evalúa el desempeño con 84 indicadores normalizados (económicos internos y externos, y sociales), y compara el ordenamiento cubano en América Latina en 1958 y 2008. Concluye que la mayoría de los indicadores económicos empeoró bajo la Revolución, mientras…

  • The Impact of the Global Crisis on Cuba's Economy and Social Welfare

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lago et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies2010Citada por: 5Referencias: 3

    The mechanisms by which the world economic crisis has been transmitted from developed to developing economies are conditioned by domestic factors that may attenuate or accentuate external economic shocks and their adverse social effects. Cuba is a special case: it is an open economy and hence vulnerable to trade-growth transmission mechanisms, but at the same time, it is a socialist economy with universal social services. This article reviews the…

  • Informal Employment and Pension and Healthcare Coverage by Social Insurance in Latin America

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEIDS Bulletin2009Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    This article describes Latin America's social insurance systems for pension and health care in the context of the region's shift in labour with decreasing formal employment and expanding informality. The analysis demonstrates that social insurance coverage is higher where informality is lower and vice versa, identifies key explanatory factors for low and unequal coverage, and suggests policy recommendations for expanding coverage

  • Hacia una evaluación de la actuación económica y social en la transición cubana de los años noventa

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEAMÉRICA LATINA HOY2009

    En 1989, Cuba tenía la economía más colectivizada, igualitaria, dependiente del exterior y subvencionada soviéticamente, de todo el mundo socialista. El colapso de la URSS supuso una dura crisis económica en la isla en los años noventa y condujo a un proceso de reformas de mercado que se llevó a cabo de forma tímida y vacilante. Las series estadísticas se desvanecen a principios de la transición, haciendo las evaluaciones serias virtualmente impo…

  • Social protection in Chile

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEInternational Labour Review2008

    At the beginning of the 1980s, Chile pioneered the implementation in Latin America of structural reforms that fully or partially privatized pensions, health‐care and social assistance systems. Implemented without prior social dialogue, these reforms – which subsequently influenced similar reforms in other countries of the region and elsewhere – led to reduced social solidarity and equity and intensified poverty and inequality. Over the past 18 ye…

  • Un reto de iberoamérica en el siglo XXI

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEAMÉRICA LATINA HOY2008

    Analiza la disminución en la cobertura de los programas de pensiones y salud de la Seguridad Social iberoamericana, por dos causas: la transformación del mercado laboral (caída del sector formal cubierto y aumento de sector informal no cubierto), «unida a la flexibilización» en la contratación laboral, y el propio sistema de Seguridad Social que no se ha adaptado a dicha transformación. Estima tres tipos de cobertura: de la fuerza laboral por los…

  • Social Policy and Social Welfare

    Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoCHAPTERLooking Forward2007

  • Social Security in Latin America

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLELatin American Research Review2007

    Social Security In Latin America Pension and Health Care Reforms in the Last Quarter Century Reviewed by Carmelo Mesa-Lago University of Pittsburgh Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, And Globalization In Latin America. Edited by Robert R. Kaufman and Joan M. Nelson. (Washington, D.C. and Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 542. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper). El Sistema De…

  • The extension of healthcare coverage and protection in relation to the labour market

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEInternational Social Security…2007Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    In the past 25 years almost all 20 countries of Latin America have reformed their healthcare systems, but coverage by social insurance averages 53 per cent of the total population (less than the ILO minimum standard), ranges from 7 to 26 per cent in ten countries and has stagnated or decreased in at least eight, and access is insufficient. This article (1) analyses the transformation of the labour market and its impact on social insurance coverag…

  • Private and public pension systems compared

    Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEReview of Political Economy2006Citada por: 6

    This article briefly explains the main features of public and private pension systems, as well as structural and parametric pension reforms. Its core compares performance, within Latin America, between private pension systems in ten countries and public pension systems in eight countries, based on nine indicators: labor force coverage, ages of retirement and pension levels, gender equality, administrative costs, wage contributions, compliance, po…

  • Assessing the World Bank Report Keeping the Promise

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEInternational Social Security…2005Citada por: 3

    A new report of the World Bank released in 2004 evaluates the performance of structural pension reforms in several Latin American countries, ratifying some fundamental issues of the Bank's previous report of 1994 but contesting others, acknowledging serious problems and recommending new policies. In the light of available data from ten countries with structural reforms in the region, as well as the author's own research, this article discusses ni…

  • Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies

    Alberto Arenas De Mesa, Carmelo Mesa-Lago et al.BOOKMarket, Socialist, and Mixed…2003

  • A economia cubana no início do século XXI

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lagoARTICLEOpinião Pública2003

    No início do século 21, a economia cubana parecia continuar em seu longo e lento processo de recuperação, depois da grave crise dos anos noventa. Mas vários fatores negativos surgiram em 2001 e na primeira metade de 2002, como os ataques terroristas de 11 de setembro de 2001; a recessão que começou em março de 2001 e se agravou em setembro; a queda dos preços mundiais do níquel; o furacão Michelle que atingiu a ilha no dia 4 de novembro; o fecham…

  • Testing the Assumptions concerning the Effects of the German Pension Reform Based on Latin American and Eastern European Outcomes

    Open AccessCarmelo Mesa-Lago, Carmelo Mesa‐lago et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Security2002Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

    The pension reform, approved in Germany in 2001, and implemented on January 1, 2002, has been described by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Walter Riester, as ‘one of the greatest social reforms this country has seen’ (Federal Ministry, 2002a) and it has prompted considerable discussion and publications. This article analyses key assumptions on the effects of the German reform in the light of two decades of experience with struc…