Putting the pension system on a sustainable footing arguably remains the biggest challenge in Russia's economic …

establish an adequate and farsighted policy framework in the areas of pensions, health insurance, and labor market policies. …

due to population aging, pension reform proposals are also being considered. In this paper we assess the macroeconomic … GDP by 2012. Instead, raising the retirement age and prefunding future aging costs would be needed to keep debt below 60 …

This paper reviews macroeconomic aspects of pension reforms in Latin America, focusing on financial market stability … and fiscal sustainability. Concentration of pension fund portfolios in government bonds remains high, and the lack of new …

The rapid aging of China's population over the next few decades makes it important for a new pension system with broad … and adequate coverage to be put in place quickly. Pension reforms, first initiated in 1997, have become bogged down in … system. This paper argues that a way forward is to separate the legacy problem from the problem of setting up a new pension …

retirement age, broadening the tax base, and raising indirect taxes, would be a more growth-friendly strategy than relying …

of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement …This paper analyzes the economic rationale for adopting parametric pension reforms and reforms broadening the coverage … security system in Colombia is roughly 160 percent of GDP for pensions and about 97 percent of GDP for the health system. …