Pension Reform in Asia is Extremely Difficult to Get Right
Pension reform has taken centre stage in Singapore and Hong Kong over the past two years, and more recently, in Taiwan. Just two weeks ago, chaotic scenes outside Taiwan's parliament, the Legislative Yuan, forced a planned review of to be postponed to next month. But pension reform in these three Asian Tigers have been done for different reasons; in Singapore and Hong Kong, reforms have been motivated by a lack of pension adequacy, in Taiwan, pension adequacy is not...
