The recent pension reforms in Central Eastern Europe include partial privatisation of old age security and are clearly modelled on Latin American role models, thus reflecting the current mainstream in the international pension reform debate. This article asks for the rationale behind this...

This highly topical book focuses on a particularly interesting area of post-1989 social policy. Existing public pension systems in Central-Eastern Europe underwent fundamental change as Latin-American style pension reforms were adopted. Such radical change in retirement provision defied...