The road to Kazakhstan's pension and social reform -- The unsustainable welfare state -- The political economy of the reform -- Macro-actuarial forecasts -- Kazakhstan's economic transformation, 1989-2007 -- Pension benefits during the transition period -- Performance of pension funds -- Legal...

Introduction : studying varieties of welfare capitalism / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow -- Business coordination, wage bargaining and the welfare state : Germany and Japan in comparative historical perspective / Philip Manow -- Strategic bargaining and social policy development :...

New Zealand has seen a change in policy direction from the provision of taxation incentives for retirement income savings from 1910 through to 1988, to removal of all incentives from 1988 through to 2004. In 1910 the focus was primarily on decreasing state dependency, while simultaneously...