Retiring the state : the politics of pension privatization in Latin America and beyond / Raul L. Madrid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madrid, Raúl L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pensions--Latin America.

Pensions.

Privatization--Latin America.

Privatization.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xx, 313 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Drawing on original field research, including interviews with key policymakers, Madrid argues that the recent reforms were driven not by social policy, but by macroeconomic concerns. Countries facing growing financial pressures chose to privatize their pension systems largely to boost their domestic savings rates and reduce public pension spending in the long run. The author explores his arguments through detailed case studies of pension reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, a survey of social security privatization efforts in East Europe and Latin America as a whole, and a quantitative analysis of pension privatization worldwide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-296) and index.

ISBN:

0804747067

0804747075

OCLC:

50693059