This paper analyzes the economic rationale for adopting parametric pension reforms and reforms broadening the coverage … of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement …

Preliminary estimates show that pension costs will continue to grow for several years, and controlling and curbing … pension costs will be a challenge for Bolivia. Market-friendly reforms could limit the scope for dollarization and its risks …

performance and the macroeconomic implications of remittances. It then looks at the sustainability of pension systems, financial …

The Selected Issues paper of the Netherlands provides an overview of the Dutch pension system. It examines the …

This paper explores how privatizing a pension system can affect sovereign credit risk. For this purpose, it analyzes … the importance that rating agencies give to implicit pension debt (IPD) in their assessments of sovereign creditworthiness …. However, by channeling pension contributions away from the government and creating a deficit of resources to cover the current …

The paper explores the macroeconomic effects of three public pension reforms, namely an increase in retirement age, a … Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), we find that public pension reforms can have a positive effect on growth in both the short …

. Further old-age pension reform is also essential. Structural reforms are needed to preserve competitiveness and enhance medium …

the generous disability and pension systems. The paper also examines the need for health care reforms in Switzerland. …

utilised solely within the State Pension, rather than allocated in favour of any particular employment sector. The vision is … contribution (DC)-based.An essential pre-requisite to reforming public sector pensions is to raise the basic State Pension above …