Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword vii -- 1 Accelerating the European Pension Reform Agenda: Need, Progress,and Conceptual Underpinnings 1 -- 2 The Making of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe 47 -- 3 The Rediscovery of Politics: Democracy and Structural...

This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...