Old-Age Income Support in the 21st Century: An International Perspective on Pension Systems and Reform

By R. Holzmann, R. Hinz. 2005

298 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The book has a comprehensive introduction and two main parts. Part I presents the conceptual underpinnings for the Bank's thinking on pension systems and reforms, including structure of Bank lending in this area. Part II highlights key design and implementation issues where it signals areas of confidence and areas for further research and experience, and includes a section on regional reform experiences, including Latin American and Europe and Central Asia.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Reforming Pensions (2009, unknown): “Our report to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in 2004 (Asher et al., 2005) is available online.1 The other root is our role as peer reviewers of a World Bank study (Holzmann and Hinz, 2005), whose analysis we regard as incomplete.”
• Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges (2012, unknown): “The 2005 World Bank definitions and structure (Holzmann and Hinz 2005) are used; this structure separates a “zero pillar” from a “first public pillar” to better differentiate between the poverty reduction/redistributive (zero pillar) and consumption smoothing (first pillar) objectives of public and…”