This paper is devoted to identifying the features and finding solutions to the problems of the formation and improvement of the non-state pension provision of Ukraine in the system of strengthening social security and preventing the degradation of the social structure. It presents the results of...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Individual Accounts and Social Security Reform -- 2 - Introduction to Individual Accounts -- 3 - Individual Accounts in Social Security Reform: The Debate -- 4 - Agency Risk and the Management of Individual Account Investments by Corporations and...

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to be the sole domain of domestic politics?...

"This book examines the origins and consequences of so-called pension fund capitalism, which has spread around the world since 1981, when the pension system was completely privatized in Chile. The author highlights the driving forces behind the privatization of pensions, its forms and tools used...

1. Structure of pension systems 2. Neoliberalism as an ideological basis for pension fund capitalism 3. The supporters and instruments of pension privatization 4. Costs and risks associated with private pensions 5. The experience of different countries with pension fund capitalism 6. Poland as a...

Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...