The quest for pension reform: Poland's security through diversity

Marek Góra and Michal Rutkowski

No 20111, Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes from The World Bank

Abstract: This report looks at pension reform recently undertaken in Poland, but draws conclusions with wider applicability. It examines the motivation for reform, the struggle of progressively minded experts and politicians to advance the reform agenda, the architecture of the new system, and issues arising during the transition. The final section offers tentative conclusions and lessons for other countries while highlighting the factors leading to the reform's successful launch (it is too early yet to determine the pension system's success). Factors included enlisting broad popular support for the contents of the reform package; shielding the office for pension reform from political fights, enabling it to focus on its professional tasks; intimately involving the trade unions through several consultations; and lastly, moving quickly to grasp opportunities, that is, taking advantage of the public consensus for pension reform.

Keywords: Environmental Economics&Policies; Pensions&Retirement Systems; Economic Theory&Research; Banks&Banking Reform; Information Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-10-31
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