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Older and wiser — the economics of public pensions
Author(s)	Lawrence Thompson
Publisher	Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1998
Pages	175 pp
Source	Urban Institute Press, 2100 M Street, N.W. Washington DC 20037.
Keywords	Pensions ; Social security benefits ; Social policy ; Economics ; International.
Annotation	A product of the Stockholm Initiative of the International Social Security Association (ISSA), this volume explores the critical economic issues underlying the ongoing worldwide debate about national pension systems. The author provides a series of non-technical essays examining topics such as the impact of pensions on the economy, the fiscal dynamic of different pension approaches, and the challenges involved in providing adequate retirement incomes. He concludes that part of the effort to reform the traditional defined-benefit, pay-as-you-go social security programme deserves to be taken seriously, but that other aspects of this effort are either unsupported by current economic knowledge, or are overstated. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-041101003 B
Classmark	JJ: JH: TM2: W: 72
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