Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America

By I. Gill, Truman G. Packard, Juan Yermo. 2004

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Nations around the world (both large and small, rich and poor) are engaged in debate over how to reform their social security systems and care for the aged. For many countries this debate requires speculation on hypothetical scenarios, but in Latin America a rich body of experience on social security reform has been accumulating for more than a decade (for Chile, more than two decades). This report, entitled, Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America, takes stock of those reforms, evaluates their successes and failures, and considers the lessons that can be drawn for the future of pension policy in the region. The authors draw on a series of background papers and surveys commissioned specifically for this inquiry, as well as existing research conducted by themselves and other pension experts. In the debate on pension reform there is no orthodoxy, as reflected in major differences of opinion among leading experts. Despite more than a decade of experience with pension reform in Latin America, although undoubtedly a major step forward, reforms are still works in progress. This report furthers enrich the policy dialogue that is of crucial importance to the future of the region.

Subfields: Accounting, Demography, General Health Professions

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In Accounting

1. Jere r. Behrman
2. Alberto Arenas de Mesa
3. Olivia S. Mitchell
4. Mitchell A. Orenstein
5. Petra E. Todd
6. Anna Lusardi
7. Jing Jian Xiao
8. M.C.J. van Rooij

In Demography

1. Olivia S. Mitchell
2. Alberto Arenas de Mesa
3. Jere r. Behrman
4. Mitchell A. Orenstein
5. Petra E. Todd
6. Anna Lusardi
7. M.C.J. van Rooij
8. Jing Jian Xiao

In General Health Professions

1. Alberto Arenas de Mesa
2. Olivia S. Mitchell
3. Mitchell A. Orenstein

Citations in the corpus

• The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons from the Social Protection Survey (2006, methodology): “3 See for instance Gill et al. (2005).”
• The New Pension Reform as Global Policy (2005, background): “It has even advocated second-stage reforms to fix substantial legal and regulatory problems that emerged in implementation in Latin America and Central Asia (Gill et al., 2005).”
• The Structural Pension Reform in Chile: Effects, Comparisons with Other Latin American Reforms, and Lessons (2006, background): “Chile’s ability to finance the high and prolonged cost of the reform based on fiscal discipline and a nonpension surplus, has not been replicated in other countries in the region, a point acknowledged by the World Bank (Gill et al., 2005).”