 The Private Affairs of Public Sector Pensions in South Africa: Debt, Development and CorporatizationFred Hendricks Chapter 8 in Reforming Pensions in Developing and Transition Countries, 2014, pp 220-247 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Towards the end of its rule, the apartheid government converted its contributory pension system for employees in the public sector from one that effectively functioned as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) scheme to one that is fully funded (FF). This chapter seeks to explain the reasons behind this change and to understand its contemporary consequences. It does this within the context of the enormous development challenges facing South Africa and the inadequacy of the social policy responses of the democratic government. Conceptually, the chapter is located within a new trend in development thinking, one that asserts an intrinsic role for the social policies of the state in the development process. In so doing, this approach seeks to shake social policy loose from its moorings to the remedial action associated with the discipline of social work designed to deal with the failures of the market. Instead, it proposes that social policy should encompass a fully fledged developmental and redistribution agenda. Keywords: Pension Fund; Public Investment; Pension System; Pension Scheme; Public Pension (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-1-137-39611-2_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Social Policy in a Development Context from Palgrave Macmillan |
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