Social security reform in transition economies
Subtitle: lessons from Kazakhstan
By: Charles M. Becker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Becker, Charles M., 1954-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Social security -- Kazakhstan; Kazakhstan -- Economic policy -- 1991-
Description: "This book documentds Kazakhstan's pension reform experience. It details the pressures that made the Soviet-era social security system unsustainable without large changes to the parameters of the system; it also discusses the options that were considered and presents the reforms actually undertaken."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The road to Kazakhstan's pension and social reform; title: The unsustainable welfare state; title: The political economy of the reform; title: Macro-actuarial forecasts; title: Kazakhstan's economic transformation, 1989-2007; title: Pension benefits during the transition period; title: Performance of pension funds; title: Legal aspects of the accumulation pension system; title: Regulation of pension funds; title: Actuarial forecasts: the reform's distributional consequences.