- I Introduction and Summary
- II Pension Regimes and Saving—A Framework for Analysis
- III Public Pension Plans, Their Reform, and Saving
- IV Private Pension Plans and Saving
- Appendix I Pension Arrangements in an Overlapping-Generations Model
- Appendix II Notes on the Empirical Literature on Pensions and Saving
- Appendix III Brief Notes on the Pension Regimes of Selected Countries
Back Matter
- Alfredo Cuevas, George Mackenzie, and Philip Gerson
- Published Date:
- September 1997

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