Retiring the State
The Politics of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3455481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivia S Mitchell (0000-0002-6419-8314), Raúl L Madrid (0000-0002-9613-6193) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 632 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Retiring the State: The Politics of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Beyond, Raúl Madrid, 2003 |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4126697 |
| OpenAlex | W2056768426 |
| Language | EN |
In the 1990s, numerous Latin American nations privatized their public pension systems. These reforms dramatically transformed the way these countries provide retirement income, and they provoked widespread protests from workers and pensioners alike. Retiring the State represents the first book-length study of the origins of this surprising trend. Drawing on original field research, including interviews with key policymakers, Madrid argues that the recent reforms were driven not by social policy, but by macroeconomic concerns. Countries facing growing financial pressures chose to privatize their pension systems largely to boost their domestic savings rates and reduce public pension spending in the long run. The author explores his arguments through detailed case studies of pension reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, a survey of social security privatization efforts in East Europe and Latin America as a whole, and a quantitative analysis of pension privatization worldwide
Development economics · Economic policy · Economics · Latin Americans · Market economy · Pension · Pension system · Political science · Politics · Social security · State (computer science) · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |