Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas
$194.03
- Hardcover
446 pages
- Release Date
22 November 2007
Summary
Latin American experiments with pension reform began when Chile converted its public pay-as-you-go system to a system of private individual accounts in the early 1980s. Several other Latin American countries then followed suit, inspired both by Chile’s reforms and by World Bank recommendations stressing compulsory government-mandated individual saving accounts. Individual accounts were subsequently introduced in a number of countries in Europe and Asia. Many are nowre-evaluating these privati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199226801 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199226806 |
| Series: | Pensions Research Council |
| Author: | Stephen J. Kay, Tapen Sinha |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 446 |
| Release Date: | 22 November 2007 |
| Weight: | 832g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 163mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Stephen J. Kay
Stephen Kay is the coordinator of Latin America analysis in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Research Department and coordinator of the Bank’s Americas Center. His articles on pension reform in Latin America have appeared in Comparative Politics, Economic Review, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, and the International Social Security Review. Hehas a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.Tapen Sinha is the ING Chair Professor at ITAM, Mexico, the founder and director of International Center for Pension Research, Special Professor, University of Nottingham, UK, Research Associate, Centre for Risk and Insurance, University of Nottingham, UK, Senior Advisor, Cranes Software Inc. Dr. Sinha has published over 110 papers and has authored or edited eight books. He has presented papers in more than 200 conferences in all continents of the globe. He has a BStat in Statistics and MStatin Econometrics from the Indian Statistical Institute. He has a doctorate in Financial Economics from the University of Minnesota.
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