Towards a New Pensions Settlement

Download or read book Towards a New Pensions Settlement written by Gregg McClymont and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the recent experiences of pension reform in seven countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Faced with common problems of ageing societies and constraints on taxation levels, all are increasingly passing responsibility for saving for retirement to citizens. However, there is enormous variety between countries in the degree to which the state intervenes to mitigate the risks which the individual can face in saving for a pension.