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Pension privatization in crisis: Death or rebirth of a global policy trend?

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From 1981 to 2007, more than thirty countries worldwide fully or partially replaced their pre‐existing pay‐as‐you‐go pension systems with ones based on individual, private savings accounts in a process often labelled “pension privatization”. After the global financial crisis, this trend was put on hold for economic, ideational, and institutional reasons, despite a rise in critical indebtedness that has facilitated pension privatization in the past. Is the global trend towards pension privatization dead or in the process of being reborn, perhaps in a somewhat different form? Several recent trends point to rebirth as policy‐makers scale back public and private pension systems, attend to minimum pensions and “nudge” rather than mandate people to save for retirement.

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  • Mitchell A. Orenstein, 2011. "Pension privatization in crisis: Death or rebirth of a global policy trend?," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(3), pages 65-80, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:intssr:v:64:y:2011:i:3:p:65-80
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-246X.2011.01403.x
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