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The Power of Banks and Governments

Reinke, Raphael

In: Accounting, Economics and Law - A Convivium, 2016, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 57-63

Université de Fribourg

The Political Economy of Universal Pensions in Bolivia

Müller, Katharina

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2016, vol. 1, no. 1, p. Article: 1.2

While non-contributory pensions are spreading around the globe, Bolivia is still the only Latin American country with a universal old-age pension scheme. Originally designed twenty years ago and contested more than once, the benefit survived a political regime change from neo-liberalism to new developmentalism and features an interesting political economy. With the commodities boom coming to...