As his new term begins, President George W. Bush has been trying to focus his domestic agenda on what he calls the "ownership society", a sweeping vision of an America in which more citizens would hold significant assets and be free to make their own choices about providing for their health care...

Resolving the pension crisis in Brazil has been neither straightforward nor technically easy. The World Bank provided technical assistance via diagnostic tools that assessed the impacts of current pensions at the state level. The analysis identified likely impacts various pension reform models...

Harry Maier: Innovation oder Stagnation. Bedingungen der Wirtschaftsreform in sozialistischen Ländern. Herausgegeben vom Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft. Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, Köln 1987. 248 Seiten, 28 Mark