This public expenditure review is produced jointly by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and focuses on social sectors spending and leaves aside infrastructure and other sectors. This report, finalized in June 2002 and discussed with Authorities in mid-August 2002, does not...

Recent events have drawn the world's attention to a crisis that has been building up for a long time-forced displacement. Beside five million Palestinians, over half of the refugees worldwide originate from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia - with Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of...

The biggest pension policy challenge faced by most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) today is low coverage of formal pension systems, both in terms of the proportion of workers participating in pension schemes and the proportion of the elderly receiving some kind of pension...

Foreword / by Waldemar W. Wirsig -- Introduction -- Mixed performance -- Differentiated and complex systems -- A typology for distinguishing myth from reality -- Key policy issues -- Between status quo and neoliberal extremes