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Title

Equitable and sustainable pensions: challenges and experience / Editors, Benedict Clements, Frank Eich, and Sanjeev Gupta.

Publication

Washington, D. C. : International Monetary Fund, c2014.

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Additional Authors

• Clements, Benedict J.
• Eich, Frank.
• Gupta, Sanjeev.
• International Monetary Fund.

Description

v, 423 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Pension reform is high on the agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies, for many reasons. This book brings together the latest IMF research on equity issues related to pension systems and pension reforms in the postcrisis world. The volume also presents country case studies and provides a rich menu of material to assist policymakers and academic audiences seeking to understand this important topic.

Subject

• Pensions
• Retirement income

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Equitable and sustainable pension systems / Benedict Clements, Frank Eich, and Sanjeev Gupta -- Public pension spending in advanced and emerging market economies: past trends and projected outcomes / Frank Eich, Mauricio Soto, and Csaba Feher -- The role of the public and private sectors in ensuring adequate pensions: theoretical considerations / Nicholas Barr -- Pension reform and equity: the impact on poverty of reducing pension benefits / Baoping Shang -- Intergenerational equity and the gender gap in pension issues / Noriyuki Takayama -- Attitudes toward the role of the family, the individual, and the state in providing retirement income: survey evidence from emerging East Asia / Richard Jackson -- Who will pay?: the dynamics of pension reform and intergenerational equity / Kenichiro Kashiwase and Pietro Rizza -- Is the egg basket worth its price?: the fiscal implications of pension privatization in Eastern Europe / Jan Drahokoupil and Stefan Domonkos --
• Pension reforms and risks: challenges for pension systems in advanced European economies / Anna Cristina D'Addio -- Pension reforms in Japan: options for fiscal sustainability / Kenichiro Kashiwase, Masahiro Nozaki, and Kiichi Tokuoka -- Providing adequate old-age pensions in the Republic of Korea / Seong Sook Kim -- Singapore's pension system: challenges and reform options / Mikul G. Asher and Azad Singh Bali -- Australian pensions: an equitable and sustainable arrangement in a postcrisis world / Ross Clare -- Emerging Asia's public pension systems: challenges and reform efforts / Donghyun Park and Gemma Estrada -- Reforming pensions to ensure equitable and adequate retirement incomes in China / Xuejin Zuo -- India's pension reform initiative / Dhiredra Swarup -- Pension reform experience in Indonesia / Iene Muliati and Mitchell Wiener -- Latvia's multipillar pension system: new challenges in the wake of the economic crisis / Edgars Volskis --
• Reforming the public pension system in the Russian Federation / Frank Eich, Charleen Gust, and Mauricio Soto -- Macroeconomic implications of pension reform in Brazil -- Joana Pereira.

ISBN

• 9781616359508 (paper)
• 1616359501 (paper)
• 9781484395097 (ePub)
• 1484395093 (ePub)
• 9781475565195 (pdf)
• 1475565194 (pdf)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library