Social security reform in transition economies: Lessons from Kazakhstan
The Road to Kazakhstan's Pension and Social Reform * The Unsustainable Welfare State * The Political Economy of the Reform * Macro-Actuarial Forecasts * Kazakhstan Today: A Brief Economic History * Social Security Benefit Structure in the Reformed System * The Accumulative System after Nine Years of Reform * Legal Aspects of the Accumulation Pension System * Administering an Accumulation Pension System: Practical Issues * Actuarial Forecasts: The Reform's Distributional Consequences * Remaining Problems * Kazakhstan in Contrast with Other Reformers * Lessons for Future Reformers * Remaining Tasks