Pension Reform in Europe: Process and Progress
- ISBN-10
- 0821353586
- ISBN-13
- 9780821353585
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- World Bank Publications
- Authors
- Robert Holzmann, Mitchell Alexander Orenstein, Michal Rutkowski
Description
The need for pension reform is an increasingly important issue on the economic reform agenda of most European countries, although there has been considerable variation in the approaches adopted. This publication contains a selection of papers from leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of economics and political science, which seek to provide an insight into the process and progress of European pension reform and to highlight areas for further research.
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