Juliana Martinez Franzoni

Juliana Martinez Franzoni holds a PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and works at the Institute of Social Research, University of Costa Rica. She is writing a paper for UNRISD on Welfare Regime, Social Services and Poverty Reduction, as well as coordinating the Costa Rican research team.
She has written extensively on welfare reform and development in Costa Rica, including “Limits to Costa Rican Heterodoxy: What Has Changed in the Switzerland of Central America?”, “What are Welfare Regimes in Latin America? Shared and Distinctive Features of Markets, States and Families;” "Costa Rica’s Pension Reform: A Decade of Negotiated Incremental Change", and Las reformas inconclusas: pensiones y salud en Costa Rica (co-authored).