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Authors: Salvador Valdes-Prieto
ISBN-13: 9780521666121, ISBN-10: 0521666120
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Salvador Valdes-Prieto

Book Synopsis

This book offers up-to-date research about publicly regulated pensions for old age.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1Introduction and overview1
2Insulation of pensions from political risk33
3Democracy and pensions in Chile: Experience with two systems58
4Public pension governance and performance92
5Pension reform and growth127
6Transitions in the presence of credit constraints160
7Financing a pension reform toward private funded pensions190
8Pension funds, capital controls, and Macroeconomic stability227
9Are there (good) macroeconomic reasons for limiting external investments by pension funds? The Chilean experience251
10Pension choices and pensions policy in the United Kingdom277
11Mandatory retirement saving: Australia and Malaysia compared318
12Public pension plans in international perspective: Problems, reforms, and research issues350
Index371

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