Documents et rapports

Social Protection for Brazil of the Future : Preparing for Change with Inclusion and Resilience (anglais)

Brazil has made significant advances in terms of reducing poverty and inequality since its return to democracy in the late 1980s. The expansion of social protection policies played an important role in...

Stronger Social Protection and Labor Systems in Central America for a Resilient and Inclusive Recovery (anglais)

Social Protection and Labor (SPL) Systems help individuals and societies manage risk and volatility and protect them from poverty through instruments that address the challenges of resilience, equity and...

Subnational Civil Servant Pension Schemes in Brazil : Context, History, and Lessons of Reform (anglais)

Brazil's pension system takes up an oversized proportion of its social protection spending. It comprises of Regime Geral de Previdéncia Social (RGPS), covering private sector workers, and over two thousand...

Previdencia dos Servidores Publicos dos Entes Subnacionais (portugais)

Sistema de Pensiones Subnacionales para Los Trabajadores del Sector Publico en Brasil : Sistema de Pensiones Subnacionales para los Trabajadores del Sector Publico en Brasil (espagnol)

Summary note on pension reform in Brazil : why is it needed and what will be its impact? (anglais)

This short note analyzes the fiscal and distributive impacts of the proposed pension reform currently under discussion in Brazil. It argues that the projected aging of Brazil`s population makes pension...

The inverting pyramid : pension systems facing demographic challenges in Europe and Central Asia (Vol. 1 of 2) : Overview (anglais)

The pension and old age security systems that originated in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been effective in sharply reducing poverty rates among the elderly throughout Europe. However...

The inverting pyramid : pension systems facing demographic challenges in Europe and Central Asia (Vol. 2 of 2) : Main report (anglais)

The pension and old age security systems that originated in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been effective in sharply reducing poverty rates among the elderly throughout Europe. However...

Adequacy (2) : Pension entitlements of recent retirees (anglais)

This note discusses how expected benefit levels can be assessed. The note points out the measurement of current benefit levels that are observable: they do not depend on any assumptions about the future...

Financial sustainability : Assessing the finances of pension systems over the long term (anglais)

This report on financial sustainability assesses the finances of pension systems over the long run. Issues of financial sustainability are mainly relevant to earnings-related schemes. These are of three...

The new pensions in Kazakhstan : challenges in making the transition (anglais)

In June of 1997 Kazakhstan embarked on a dramatic reform of its pension system, replacing the inherited pay as you go regime with one based entirely on fully funded individual accounts. This paper provides...

Implicit pension debt: issues, measurement and scope in international perspective (anglais)

This paper argues that it is important to take into account unfunded public pension liabilities as part of an assessment of the overall fiscal situation, including the fiscal positions of pension schemes...

A simulation of social security reforms in Latin America: what has been gained? (anglais)

This paper presents the results of simulation analysis of the likely medium and longer term fiscal and equity outcomes of structural reforms to social security systems in Latin America. While several studies...