Social Security Pension Reform in Europe

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Social Security in the United States and in Europe is at a critical juncture. Through the essays assembled in Social Security Pension Reform in Europe, Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert, along with a number of distinguished contributors, discuss the challenges facing Social Security reform in the aging societies of Europe. A remarkable range of European nations—Germany, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Hungary—have implemented or are about to implement mixed Social Security systems that combine a traditional defined benefit of the pay-as-you-go system with an individual retirement account defined contribution of a capital-funded system.

The essays here highlight the problems that the European pension reform process faces and how it differs from that of the United States. This timely volume will significantly enrich the debate on pension reform worldwide.

Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Security, ... on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security)

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Tapen Sinha
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The experience of privatization of social security has been predominantly in the Latin American region. Eight countries have undertaken either full or partial privatization of pensions: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. What did the policymakers expect? Were expectations realized? Can we learn anything from the collective experience of these countries? Can they be applied to other countries that are aspiring to privatize? How did the World Bank and other international institutions affect these policies? Pension Reform in Latin America and Its Lessons for International Policymakers analyzes in detail these important questions.
The book begins with a detailed account of economic conditions in Latin America. It then discusses various models that policymakers rely on. Starting with a purely demographic model, it lays out advanced models of overlapping generations of Samuelson. The book gives extensive details of privatized pensions in each of the eight reforming countries. Two chapters are devoted to analyzing the reform in each country. Finally, detailed lessons are drawn that will help shape the debate for policymakers in other countries.

A reform proposal for Costa Rica's pension system.: An article from: Finance & Development

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A reform proposal for Costa Rica's pension system.: An article from: Finance & Development
Asli Demirguc-Kunt , and Anita Schwarz
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This digital document is an article from Finance & Development, published by International Monetary Fund on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2036 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Costa Rica's public pension system provides a good example of the problems plaguing traditional public pension schemes and the policy options available to governments. The Costa Rican Social Insurance Fund, the country's main social security institution, provides compulsory social insurance coverage for employees on old-age, disability and survivor pensions, as well as sickness and maternity benefits. The system is too costly and faces long-run financial problems. It has among the lowest contribution rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, while having some of the highest targeted replacement rates in the region. The government has two reform options: making minor changes to the current system to make it both more financially sustainable and more equitable in the near term, or completely restructuring the system to create a multipillar old-age-security system.

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Title: A reform proposal for Costa Rica's pension system.
Author: Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Publication: Finance & Development (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Volume: v33 Issue: n3 Page: p44(3)

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Social security pensions: Development and reform & Social security pensions: Development and reform. Executive summary.(Review) (book review): An article from: International Labour Review

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Social security pensions: Development and reform & Social security pensions: Development and reform. Executive summary.(Review) (book review): An article from: International Labour Review

Manufacturer: International Labour Office
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from International Labour Review, published by International Labour Office on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1376 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Social security pensions: Development and reform & Social security pensions: Development and reform. Executive summary.(Review) (book review)
Publication: International Labour Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: International Labour Office
Volume: 139 Issue: 2 Page: 244

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Social Security Pensions: Development and Reform. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review) : An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Social Security Pensions: Development and Reform. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review) : An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Vickie L. Bajtelsmit
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Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 613 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Social Security Pensions: Development and Reform. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Vickie L. Bajtelsmit
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
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Volume: 69 Issue: 1 Page: 111(2)

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Pension developments and reforms in transition economies (IMF working paper)

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Pension developments and reforms in transition economies (IMF working paper)
M Cangiano
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Pension reform in small emerging economies: Issues and challenges (Sustainable Development Department Technical paper series)

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Pension reform in small emerging economies: Issues and challenges (Sustainable Development Department Technical paper series)
Kenroy Dowers
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Social Security Pensions: Development and Reform

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Social Security Pensions: Development and Reform

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ASIN: 9221108597

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This is a valuable reference for anyone concerned with reforming or establishing pension programs and for those looking to understand the practicalities and structure behind various pension schemes. By providing a balanced assessment and factual review of what various countries around the world have done, this book assists decision-makers in forming effective, viable pension policy. Discussing not only the current situation in pension schemes, the book also considers the analytical, social, and economic consequences which arise from different pension structures. In what sometimes is a heated debate, this study avoids taking sides, but instead illustrates what has worked and not worked in the various countries covered. It examines the practicalities of running a pension scheme and provides numerous examples, summaries and quantitative information.

It examines administrative regulations and procedures used to collect contributions, to pay pensions, to invest reserves and to set various formulae which determine contributor and benefit rates. Social Security Pensions also offers a helpful glossary of terms, as well as numerous tables and figures for easy reference.

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Social security reform and women's pensions (Policy research report on gender and development working paper series)
Alejandra Cox Edwards
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Limited appeal.......2007-06-13

I sought out "Between North and South" as one among many sets of letters (as well as diaries) written by northerners in the South around the time of the Civil War, and ultimately I found it to be a disappointment. First, the good parts. The editor, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq (a descendant of Emily Wharton Sinkler) has done a good job of prefacing, bridging between, and annotating Emily Wharton Sinkler's letters to her family, although LeClercq does get a bit excessive with the context, sometimes overexplaining what's coming up in a letter. Indeed, often times the editorial comments between letters can be safely and easily skipped. Nonetheless, if one is going to err, it's better to err on the side of assuming that an early-twenty-first-century audience will need some help understanding how a mid-nineteenth-century woman lived her life. LeClercq has clearly put a good deal of effort into making her ancestor's correspondence available to a wider audience. Emily Wharton Sinkler was a steady, frequent correspondent, meaning that, especially toward the earlier portion of the focal period (1842-1865), readers can get a good sense of the day-to-day life of Sinkler, as events alluded to in one letter are, in many cases, commented on further in another letter.

The chief problem here, though, is Sinkler's myopia, for which she can hardly be blamed given that she wrote for family and friends, not for publication. Sinkler's key interests, based on the letters, are getting letters (and chiding those family members who are tardy with such letters of their own), getting and receiving parcels from Philadelphia (her parents' home), visiting with southern neighbors and friends, and commenting on the development of her children, particularly Lizzie and Wharton (Bud). After but a short time, each letter feels almost exactly like the last, with many of the same concerns reiterated many times. Though Sinkler is clearly well-read and -educated for her day, she shows practically no concern with the wider world, so anyone expecting sociopolitical commentary will be sadly disappointed. True, ninteenth-century ideology did discourage women from concern with the public, "male" sphere of politics, but many women of the time nonetheless took an interest in it; Sinkler does not, in at least one case specifically shying away from such subjects as too inflammatory for her northern family members. While the relative absence of commentary about the institution of slavery, of which her family-by-marriage was a significant partaker, says something about the ubiquity and unquestioned status of the practice in many parts of the antebellum plantation South, the absence of commentary isn't very helpful for students of race and race relations. What we do get in this area are a few passing comments about the allegedly comedic aspects of the "blackeys," as she called them, and their seeming propensity to beg from her around Christmastime. While Sinkler presents herself (to the extent she even bothers to discuss the issue) as a fairly indulgent mistress, LeClercq as editor seems more than willing to let the entire issue slide, barely commenting on it in her extensive editorial remarks. Anyone expecting the veil to be lifted during the years just before and during the Civil War will be disappointed, as the period from 1855-1865 makes up a mere six pages. LeClercq, of course, can only work with extant materials, and she's hardly to blame for the lack of Sinkler letters, but it's still disappointing. The excerpts LaClercq gives us from Lizzie's memoir of the period fairly drip with energy, making the mother's silence-by-necessity all the more regrettable.

What, ultimately, we're left with is a rather dry recount of a life of relative leisure in the prewar South. Sinkler herself warns her readers, both intended and unintended, that city life such as that in Philadelphia is doubtless far more interesting than what goes in on her day-to-day existence. True to this, the letters are in some ways like the life, or at least the life as Sinkler herself seems to have seen it.

(As a side note, the University of South Carolina Press, though deserving of credit for publishing a series of women's letters and diaries, also deserves a demerit for its sales job in the dust jacket of Between North and South. While the text does note that much time is taken up with domestic concerns, it also suggests that there'll be an extensive discussion of black culture as seen by Sinkler and an account of her teaching the slaves despite the fact that such was forbidden by state law. While such elements are literally in the book, slave education is the focus of only part of one letter, while it is mentioned in passing only a few other times.)

While no collection of letters and diaries from this period is without merit, it's doubtful that Between North and South will have a very broad appeal or historical useability. I'd recommend it only for serious (and patient) students of nineteenth-century domesticity, plantation life, or leisure practices, and even then LeClercq's other book about Sinkler, An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts And Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler / With Eighty-two Newly Discovered ... (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South), is, I would guess, a better place to start.

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Recommended with Reservations.......2006-05-27

Three and one-half stars.

Yes, the author has evidently researched his subject exhaustively, but he doesn't always have the courage to forgo the results of his research when they aren't relevant or, especially, when they're redundant: It isn't necessary to describe in detail each and every single recital on his instrument Theremin gave in the United States, for example; we get the idea.

Because of historical inaccuracies, such as its strong suggestion that Khrushchev directly succeeded Stalin (actually Georgy Malenkov directly succeeded Stalin), and because of its suspect hyperbolic tone, I don't completely trust the book's account.

The prose is generally serviceable, but there are number of annoying solecisms that recur. The author consistently uses the term "enormity" to mean "enormous", for example, whereas in fact an enormity is an atrocity. He uses "hopefully" to mean "I hope", whereas in fact "hopefully" is an adverb meaning "full of hope".

There is almost no insight proffered as to the subject's motivation, which leaves a fairly gaping hole in the work considering the many very odd and fateful choices Leon Theremin makes over the course of his long life.

If you're particularly interested in electronic music or twentieth-century history you should read this--just take it [...] grano salis.

Heavy handing anticommunism mars otherwise good story.......2002-07-02

Glinsky has done a great job of compiling the factual story of Leon Theremin and electronic music, particularly the Theremin instrument through the years.
I have several reservations. First, the writing style is pedestrian and not terribly stylish or interesting. Second, it would have been nice to have a bit more detail on how the instrument actually works. And last but most serious, Glinsky is obsessed with the evils of communism and spends far too much time sneering at Americans fooled by Stalin and on wallowing in the grotesque history of communism in the USSR than is justified given that the book is about Leon Theremin, not Stalin, Lenin, Beria, Kruschev, etc. etc. He gives us several pages on Beria and his fate, for example, when Beria actually had only an indirect link to Theremin. The point seems to be to portray Beria as an evil man. Fine, but this book is about Leon Theremin, right?
My last reservation is that in the end, I still did not feel we ever got to know Theremin. Why he did what he did, what he thought of events in his life, remains a mystery. It may well be that Theremin, a committed communist, was too alien to Glinsky's own imagination for him to be able to write about him with any insight or sympathy. We get, generally, a pretty clinical detachment.
This is a fine book for the facts. I cherish it as a solid resource. But Leon Theremin himself remains unknown to us on a personal level, and so as a biography this book falls short.

A Thrilling tale of Music History at it's finest.......2001-11-19

Dr. Glinsky managed to write a complete factual book and yet have all the action and suspense that you would commonly find in an espionage novel!

If you liked the Martin film, you MUST read the book.......2001-08-15

After seeing "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey" for the second time last year I was motivated to seek a more thorough biography of this fascinating life. Luckily Glinsky's book was hot off the press. This book is amazing.

Theremin's life is so interesting, and the narrative is so engrossing, that it reads like a thriller. Only one that covers a nearly hundred year life. The setting covers revolutionary Russia, roaring twenties NY, depression era NY, Stalinist Russia, the Gulag, the cold war, the sixties, and on and on.

The research Glinsky put in is astounding. You get the feeling that there exists no document of this life that he didn't catalog. Yet he writes beautifully and does a wonderful job of bringing the subject to brilliant life. There are so many details I'd love to mention but I wouldn't want to spoil a thing. Anyone who was intrigued by the documentary (which barely scratches the surface) should buy this book and read it. For me, the book has awakened an entire fascination with twentieth century Russia and I'm already reading other non-fiction on the topic.

Mr. Glinsky is to be congratulated on a stunning piece of work.

Extraordinary biography of an extraordinary life!.......2001-03-15

Mr. Glinsky has done superb research. He writes beautifully. This book is equally important for the cognoscenti as for those who know nothing about Theremin, electronic instruments and the Soviet Union. It is difficult to imagine such a life but it characterizes the 20th century and Glinsky brings it alive in every respect. Theremin was a genius and a private man. Those who knew him in later life (as did I) have no conception of his personality. But Glinsky found those in his early years who make his person come alive. Certainly the best music biography I have ever read......

Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Notes

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Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Notes
Mark Polishook
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Title: Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. (Book Reviews).
Author: Mark Polishook
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 58 Issue: 2 Page: 381(2)

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Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage (Music in American Life)

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Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage (Music in American Life)
Albert/ Moog, Robert (FRW) Glinsky
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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ASIN: B000OQ64TG

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This book poignantly traces the personal, ethical, and professional development of a child predicted to be dysfunctional.

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This is a powerful book........1997-04-04

Anyone who feels that literacy has changed their life should read this book. The author tells of her heart-wrenching, lonely existence as an abused child who was shuttled from one foster home to another until she was adopted by a woman who opened her eyes to the world of reading. The author was able to overcome her less than auspicious beginning to become a professor of English at IUPUI. This story could have been told with much melodrama, but the author tells it in an extremely honest manner and lets the drama of the story come through naturally. She does not beg for sympathy for the circumstances of her childhood. She simply tells the readers how literacy brought her out of a miserable existence and makes a connection with her readers that will, at least for this reader, last forever.

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