Socialist Insecurity (English, Mark W. Frazier)

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Over the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pension programs, to the point that pension funding is one of the government's largest expenditures. Despite this, only about fifty million citizens--one-third of the country's population above the age of sixty--receive pensions. Combined with the growing and increasingly violent unrest over inequalities brought about by China's reform model, the escalating costs of…

ISBN: 9780801448225