Chile pioneered a structural reform in Latin America that privatized its public pension system and influenced similar reforms in another nine countries. Twenty-five years later, this article evaluates the macroeconomic, microeconomic, and social effects of this reform in Chile and the other...

En América Latina, el bienestar de millones de personas de edad avanzada depende del adecuado funcionamiento de los sistemas de pensiones. Así, la sostenibilidad de los sistemas de pensiones corresponde a uno de los desafíos más relevantes, en particular, en tiempos de pandemia. Por ello,...

Latin American countries are in the midst of a demographic transition and, as a consequence, a population-aging process. Over the next few decades, the number of children will decline relative to the number of older adults. Population aging is the result of a slow but sustained reduction in...