Reformas da Previdência Social no Chile: lições para o Brasil

Abstract

Chile was the first country in Latin America to implement neoliberal structural reforms, under the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). Such reforms were oriented by the affirmation of the state's subsidiary nature and the market's expansion in various areas, with a pullback by industry and weakening of labor union organization and workers' rights 1. The country's social security and health systems suffered radical privatizing reforms that influenced other Latin American countries in the subsequent decades 2. Br…