In Argentinien wurde in den letzten Jahren ein neuer Anlauf zur wirtschaftlichen Stabilisierung und Strukturanpassung unternommen. Dessen Auswirkungen werden im Aufsatz untersucht und es wird festgestellt, daß die günstigen Bedingungen, nach dem Ende der Militärdiktatur einen radikalen...

Der Erfolg der nach 1973 ergriffenen Strukturanpassungsmaßnahmen hat Chile zu einem Lehrbeispiel der neoliberalen Theorie gemacht, obwohl sich bei genauerem Hinsehen zeigt, daß viele wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen der achtziger Jahre keineswegs der reinen Lehre der "Chicago-Boys" um Milton...

All of Zambia's pension schemes are deficient in design, financing, and administration. This report urges that Zambia restructure its social protection system to complement its new economic strategy. That restructuring must address such basic problems as macroeconomic fluctuations and an...

This article surveys the relationship between public and private pension provision in the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD. Population ageing has led many OECD countries to undertake a wide range of pension reforms. The overall effect of these reforms...

The authors discuss key choices policy makers face about China's pension system in the face of a rapidly aging population. They describe the problems the current pay-as-you-go system faces in the near and long term and simulate policy options for solving those problems. They find that simple...

This article examines recent pension reforms in OECD countries. All countries are facing the challenge of designing both financially and socially sustainable pension policies in a context of weak economic growth, low financial returns and ageing populations. In some cases, countries have been...

The author examines the performance of the new private pension systems in Peru and Colombia during their first years of existence. Peru and Colombia were the second and third Latin American countries to implement a systemic reform of their pension systems. The reforms experienced difficulties in...