Lessons from pension reform in the Americas / edited by Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kay, Stephen J.

Sinha, Tapen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pensions--Government policy--Latin America.

Pensions.

Social security--Latin America.

Social security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Latin American experiments with pension reform began when Chile converted its public pay-as-you-go system to a system of private individual accounts in the early 1980s. Several other Latin American countries then followed suit, inspired both by Chile's reforms and by World Bank recommendations stressing compulsory government-mandated individual saving accounts. Individual accounts were subsequently introduced in a number of countries in Europe and Asia. Many are now re-evaluatingthese privatisations in an effort to 'reform the reform' to make these systems more efficient and equitable. This vo

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Foreword: Toward an Era of Longevity and Wealth; 1. Overview: Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas; Part I. System Design and Implications; 2. The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons from the Social Protection Survey; 3. The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the USA; 4. The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform in Latin America; 5. Pension Reform and Gender Inequality

6. Reflections on Pension Reform in the Americas: From 'Averting the Old-Age Crisis' to 'Keeping the Promise of Old-Age Security' and Beyond7. Bounded Rationality in Latin-American Pension Reform; Part II. Country Studies; 8. Perspectives from the President's Commission on Social Security Reform; 9. Reforms to Canadian Social Security, 1996-7; 10. A Decade of Government-Mandated Privately Run Pensions in Mexico: What Have We Learned?; 11. Pensions in Brazil: Reaching the Limits of Parametric Reform in Latin America; 12. Costa Rica's Pension Reform: A Decade of Negotiated Incremental Change

13. The Peruvian Pension Reform: Ailing or Failing?14. Uruguay: A Mixed Reform; 15. The Pension System in Argentina; 16. Epilogue: The Future of Retirement Systems in the Americas; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-152769-6

1-281-14999-3

9786611149994

OCLC:

228098352