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Social Security Reform in Brazil Achievements and Remaining Challenges

Title
Social Security Reform in Brazil [electronic resource]: Achievements and Remaining Challenges / Fabio Giambiagi and Luiz de Mello
Author
Giambiagi, Fabio.
Publication
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

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Additional Authors
de Mello, Luiz.
Description
22 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
Summary
This paper reviews the main elements of social security reform in Brazil since 1998 and discusses areas where further policy action is yet to be taken to ensure the sustainability of the social-security system over time. Outlays on pensions paid to private-sector workers have risen as a result of population ageing and the increase in the value of the minimum wage in real terms, to which the minimum pension is linked. Some features of existing social protection programmes, including means-tested old-age and disability-related benefits, reduce the incentives facing workers to seek social security coverage. At the same time, an expansion of the base of contributions to social security has been constrained by widespread labour informality. Further reform will therefore need to focus on options for containing the rise in social security spending while tackling labour informality so as to broaden the base of contributions.
Series Statement
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.534
Uniform Title
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.534.
Subject
  • Economics
  • Brazil
LCCN
10.1787/353362832738
OCLC
oecd-lib-002361
Author
Giambiagi, Fabio.
Title
Social Security Reform in Brazil [electronic resource]: Achievements and Remaining Challenges / Fabio Giambiagi and Luiz de Mello
Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.
Series
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.534
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.534.
Connect to:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/353362832738
Indexed Term
Economics
Brazil
Added Author
de Mello, Luiz.
Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/353362832738 doi
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