Latin America and Caribbean

Brazil's rural pension system, its development and impacts: lessons for China

Like Brazil in the 1960s, China is now facing problems of large geographical inequalities, as well high rates of rural to urban migration of younger aged adults. However, rural older people account for a much higher share of China?s total population than in Brazil. This both increases the urgency for universal pension provision and increases the economic cost of doing so.

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