Chile's Elites Face Demands for Reform

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Pension Reform and Growth Replacing a pay-as-you-go pension system with a fully funded scheme could Giancarlo Corsetti eliminate the incentives Klaus Schmidt -Hebbel (under the pay-as-you-go system) to informalize production and employment. Simulations of an endogenous-growth model suggest that long-term growth could increase substantially by such a reform. Econometric evidence suggests that pe...

Political Elites and their Influence on Health-Care Reform in Canada

Revolution, reform, and status inheritance: urban China, 1949-1996.

Do regime change and market reform disrupt patterns of intergenerational mobility? China's political trajectory is distinctive from that of other communist regimes in two ways. During its first three decades, the regime enforced unusually restrictive barriers to elite status inheritance. And during the subsequent market transition, unlike most of its counterparts, the Communist Party survived i...

The Effects of Energy Subsidy Reform on Fuel Demand in Iran

To prevent further increases in energy consumption, the government of Iran commenced energy subsidy reform in 2010. This paper investigates the fuel conservation effects of the reform in Iran using a homothetic translog cost function that provides estimates of the own- and cross-price elasticities of fuel demands. The percentage reduction in fuel demands is estimated using the likely effect of ...

From state terrorism to state errorism: post-Pinochet Chile's long search for truth and justice.

Patio 29 lies in the northern sector of Santiago's General Cemetery. To the naked eye, it is a grim unweeded field of some twelve hundred rusted tin crosses. But to the families of the 1,197 detained-disappeared during Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, Patio 29 is both a site of horror and a site of hope. Its story begins in September-December 1973 when 320 early victims of the repression...