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Models of Public Sector Intervention: Providing for the Elderly in Argentina (c. 1890–1994)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1997

PETER LLOYD-SHERLOCK
PETER LLOYD-SHERLOCK
Affiliation:
Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Glasgow
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Abstract

This article analyses the role of the public sector in providing social insurance and assistance to the elderly in Argentina between the late nineteenth century and the present day. It assesses the extent to which this involvement embodied clear-cut development paradigms or was driven by political pressures. Between the 1940s and 1970s the public sector enjoyed a monopoly of insurance and assistance provision, with the private and voluntary sectors largely excluded. These monopolies failed to provide satisfactory levels of a welfare and proved financially unsustainable. By the 1980s a gradual process of pluralisation had begun, which culminated with the partial privatisation of social insurance in 1994.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1997 , pp. 1 - 21
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Colin M. Lewis of the London School of Economics and two anonymous referees for their valuable comments.