The Argentine Pension System, its Success and Challenges : Contributions to an Informed Policy Debate / Ignacio Apella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apella, Ignacio, author.

Series:

Other Social Protection Study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (25 pages).

Other Title:

Argentine Pension System, its Success and Challenges

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, 2022.

Summary:

Over the last two decades, the Argentine pension system has made extraordinary progress in extending coverage--now reaching to nearly one hundred percent of the elderly--by expanding its non-contributory scheme and establishing automatic benefit adjustment mechanisms and increasing the replacement rate. Nonetheless, important challenges remain which may require public policy interventions in the near future. Some challenges are relevant in the short term, relating to coverage and equity of the system, while others are important in the longer term associated with the financial sustainability of the system in the context of population aging. The non-contributory benefits to reduce the coverage gap did not consider the labor history of workers and their past partial contributions, generating a horizontal inequality problem.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher Number:

10.1596/38208