Reforming pensions: Myths, truths and policy choices

Reforming Public Pensions: Sharing the Experiences of Transition and OECD Countries

Volumn 9789264105812, Issue , 2004, Pages 99-125

  Barr, Nicholas ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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