Pension reform : a short guide / Nicholas Barr and Peter Diamond.

This book is an abridgement of the authors' Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices, 2008. It begins with the introduction to the earlier book, includes the concluding chapters to the sections on principles and on policy choices and the concluding policy chapter to the book. It summar...

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Main Authors: Barr, N. A. (Author), Diamond, Peter A. (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Oxford Scholarship Online
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Summary:This book is an abridgement of the authors' Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices, 2008. It begins with the introduction to the earlier book, includes the concluding chapters to the sections on principles and on policy choices and the concluding policy chapter to the book. It summarizes the Chile and China chapters into a section of five pages. It presents material from some of the boxes of the longer book. While the longer book remains as a detailed analysis of pension reform, this new, shorter book conveys the message and conclusions to policy makers, journalists writing for the general public, and students being introduced to social security and other pension policy. The topic being condensed and summarized here is described at length in the earlier book. It stems from rapidly changing economic conditions and dramatic increases in life expectancy. Newspaper headlines across the globe anticipate again and again a massive rupture of social security and retirement systems. With public fears on the rise, officials in many countries under pressure to solve problems quickly are turning their backs on traditional pay-as-you-go systems in favor of privately financed retirement plans. The authors demonstrate that in the age of globalization these problems are no longer simply domestic problems. Because trade borders are becoming increasingly open and digital transactions are hastily erasing national economic boundaries, countries are no longer able to act independently in setting pension policies. These problems are particularly exacerbated in China, a state where massive restructuring of state-owned enterprises and comparatively recent dynamic entry into global markets have already taxed a system whose enormous burden is to support the retirement of the world's largest national population. The authors address these issues in a survey of pension economic principles and application to China.
Item Description:An abridgement of the authors': Reforming pensions : principles and policy choices.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 238 pages) : illustrations
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0199718598
0199741972
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