Publication: Enhancing Economic Reforms through Social Development : Brazil State Pension Systems Reform LIL
Date
2001-03
ISSN
Published
2001-03
Author(s)
Kuehnast, Kathleen
Abstract
Resolving the pension crisis in Brazil
has been neither straightforward nor technically easy. The
World Bank provided technical assistance via diagnostic
tools that assessed the impacts of current pensions at the
state level. The analysis identified likely impacts various
pension reform models might have on different social groups,
including the poor. The project was realistic in scope. It
was intended only to equip the states technically to address
pension reform and to assist in setting up stakeholder
discussion groups to openly examine and debate the merits of
various pension reform proposals. The government allowed
the testing of these diagnostic tools on the social security
system. In the end, such technical assistance could achieve
only part of the reform. The critical component was building
internal government support for constitutional reforms of
the pension system. This Note summarizes how the State
Pensions system Reform LIL Project created the capacity for
learning, trust, and reform.
Citation
“Kuehnast, Kathleen. 2001. Enhancing Economic Reforms through Social Development : Brazil State Pension Systems Reform LIL. Social Development Notes; No. 52. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/bcfd0a7a-461e-577b-b172-f28b21e5ad57 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”