This paper has a double purpose. First, the author intends to discuss what is in game when the public social security is changed for private systems based on individual savings. Second, she aims to analyze why the neoliberal reforms are accepted easier in Latin America (with exception of Brazil)...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the main gender impacts generated by the recent Brazilian pension reform. The authors chose to focus attention on the two main rule alterations in the major pension regime (the RGPS administered by INSS): 1) the new benefit calculation formula, and 2) the...