 The Political Economy of Pension Reforms in Croatia 1991-2006Igor Guardiancich
Financial Theory and Practice, 2007, vol. 31, issue 2, 95-151 Abstract: After the collapse of ex-Yugoslavia, Croatia inherited a ‘premature’ socialist pay-asyou-go pension system. During the early 1990s, it was used more extensively than elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe to ease the pains of the country’s transition to a market economy, thereby leaving Croatian pensions in dire need of reforms. This article will try to meticulously describe the reform process during the period 1991-2006, which was characterised by three relatively independent phases: the first, a retrenchment phase, which condemned a majority of pensioners to old-age poverty; the second, a restructuring phase, which led, under the aegis of international financial institutions, to the legislation of radical reforms; and the third, a populist phase, which undid most of the previous efforts. The article will conclude that this concoction of poverty, agency capture and crony capitalism had a common denominator, that is the struggle for power during the country’s democratic consolidation. Keywords: Croatia; institutional change; multipillar pension systems; pension reforms; populist measures (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ipf:finteo:v:31:y:2007:i:2:p:95-151 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Financial Theory and Practice from Institute of Public Finance Contact information at EDIRC. |
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