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Pension Reform: Issues and Prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes

Edited by Robert Holzmann and Edward PalmerPension Reform: Issues and Prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes - front cover

Blue Arrow icon Complete report in Chinese (2.6mb pdf) and English (5.4mb pdf)

Blue Arrow icon Cover (882kb pdf)

Blue Arrow icon Table of Contents, Preface and Abbreviations (80kb pdf)

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 1 - The Status of the NDC Discussion: Introduction and Overview (90kb pdf)
by Robert Holzmann and Edward Palmer

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 2 - What Is NDC? (108kb pdf)
by Edward Palmer

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 3 - What Are NDC Systems? What Do They Bring to Reform Strategies? (113kb pdf)
by Axel H. Börsch-Supan

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 4 - Non-Financial Defined Contribution Pensions: Mapping the Terrain (78kb pdf)
by Nicholas Barr

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 5 - Conceptualization of Non-Financial Defined Contribution Systems (112 kb pdf)
by Assar Lindbeck

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 6 - Demographic Uncertainty and Evaluation of Sustainability of Pension Systems (217kb pdf) by Juha M. Alho, Jukka Lassila and Tarmo Valkonen

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 7 - The Rate of Return of Pay-As-You-Go Pension Systems: A More Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest (162kb pdf) by Ole Settergren and Boguslaw D. Mikula

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 8 - A Market Method to Endow NDC Systems with Automatic Financial Stability (113kb pdf)
by Salvador Valdés-Prieto

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 9 - Conversion to NDCs—Issues and Models (163kb pdf)
by Edward Palmer

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 10 - NDCs: A Comparison of the French and German Point Systems (134kb pdf)
by Florence Legros

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 11 - Toward a Coordinated Pension System in Europe: Rationale and Potential Structure(297kb pdf) by Robert Holzmann

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 12 - NDC Pension Schemes in Middle- and Low-Income Countries (325kb pdf)
by David Lindeman, David Robalino and Michal Rutkowski

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 13 - How Much Do People Need to Know about Their Pensions and What Do They Know?(100kb pdf) by Annika Sundén

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 14 - Lashed to the Mast? The Politics of NDC Pension Reform (199kb pdf)
by Sarah M. Brooks and R. Kent Weaver

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 15 - NDC Strategy in Latvia: Implementation and Prospects for the Future (166kb pdf)
by Edward Palmer, Sandra Stabina, Ingemar Svensson and Inta Vanovska

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 16 - The NDC System in Poland: Assessment after Five Years (128kb pdf)
by Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak and Marek Góra

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 17 - The NDC Reform in Sweden: The 1994 Legislation to the Present (97kb pdf)
by Bo Könberg, Edward Palmer and Annika Sundén

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 18 - NDCs in Italy: Unsatisfactory Present, Uncertain Future (134kb pdf)
by Daniele Franco and Nicola Sartor

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 19 - Implementing the NDC Theoretical Model: A Comparison of Italy and Sweden (129kb pdf) by Sandro Gronchi and Sergio Nisticò

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 20 - Investigating the Introduction of NDCs in Austria (141kb pdf)
by Bernhard Felderer, Reinhard Koman and Ulrich Schuh

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 21 - The NDC Reform in the Czech Republic (121kb pdf)
by Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak and Marek Mora

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 22 - The German Public Pension System: How It Will Become an NDC System Look-Alike (192kb pdf) by Axel H. Börsch-Supan and Christina B. Wilke

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 23 - The Spanish Pension System: Issues of Introducing NDCs (130kb pdf)
by Carlos Vidal-Meliá and Inmaculada Domínguez-Fabián

Blue Arrow icon Chapter 24 - Reforming Social Security in Japan: Is NDC the Answer? (65kb pdf)
by Noriyuki Takayama

Blue Arrow icon Contributors (57kb pdf)

Blue Arrow icon Index (75kb pdf)

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