1st Edition

Pensions in Development

By Roger Charlton, Roddy McKinnon Copyright 2001
    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2001. Challenging conventional approaches to the delivery of sustainable "social protection" to the elderly in developing countries (DCs) and assessing their implications, this work discusses the appropriateness of the public management of funded systems in DCs with relatively large formal sectors. The combination of social assistance approaches to social protection for the elderly facilitates the formation of an original unbiased "pensions in development" approach. Arguing for expeditious implementation of non-contributory tax (or aid) financed universal old-age "pensions" provision in all DCs and advocating industry flexibility and inclusivity, the book provides a treatment of a growing issue in worldwide development.

    I: Global Perspectives and Issues; 1: Introduction; 2: International Organisations and Pension System Reform; 3: Public-Private Partnerships in Pillared Pension Provision; II: Regional Responses: Distilling Lessons from Pension Reform; 4: From ‘Outgrowing’ to ‘In-Built’ Strategies: Pension Reform in the Transition Economies; 5: The National Provident Fund Model: Epitaph or Evolution?; III: Pensions in Development: Towards Expanded Options; 6: Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and Issues in Social Protection; 7: Alternative Agendas for Least Developed Countries; 8: The Pension Fund-Capital Market Nexus; 9: Pensions in Development: From Monologue to Dialogue

    Biography

    Roger Charlton, Roddy McKinnon