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Social Security in check: an analysis based on the adequacy of financing mechanisms

ABSTRACT

The 1980s have been a time of change in the debate around social security in Brazil. Being first a topic of medicine and actuaries, since it started to present successive deficits, it has called the attention of economists. This paper aims to debate the crisis of the social security system, the possible origins of its deficit, and alternatives to funding.

KEYWORDS:
social security; pension; retirement; deficit

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