Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, former OECD chief economist, states that "51 countries have introduced capitalization, totally or partially, in their pension systems" 

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PIONEER CHILE

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• What has been said?

• How the power of ideas can transform a country, by José Piñera (November 4, 2000)

• Chile: A Better Social Security System?, by William F. Buckley Jr. (The Boston Globe, November 30,1980)

• Chileans unravel Social Security tangle, by José Piñera (The Wall Street Journal, January 3,1986)

• Chile and a novel approach to Social Security, ("Firing Line", May 20, 1988)

• The battle for Chile's Social Security Reform ("El Cascabel al Gato", April 1991)

• If Chile Can Do It, couldn't America privatize its social security system?, by Joe Klein (Newsweek, December 12, 1994)

• Empowering Workers (Cato Letter Nº 10, 1995)

• Testimony of José Piñera to the UK House of Commons (May 20, 1996)

• Free trade and Social Security Choice (The Wall Street Journal, 1999)

• Retiring in Chile, by José Piñera (The New York Times, December 1, 2004)

• AFPs, roads, and capital markets, by Joshua Goodman (Business Week, May 31, 2004)

• The Proof is in the Pension, by John Tierney (The New York Times, April 26, 2005)

• Place Your Bets, by John Tierney (The New York Times, May 7, 2005)

• The Old and the Rested, by John Tierney (The New York Times, June 14, 2005)

• Thirty Years of Private Social Security in Chile, by Ian Vasquez (May 5, 2011)

• Q&A about the Chilean Pension System, by Jacobo Rodríguez (US Senate Special Committee on Aging, May 18, 2004)

• A note of Chile's private disability insurance, by José Piñera

• Individual unemployment accounts, by William B. Connerly (November 12, 2002)

• ABC de la capitalización, por José Piñera

REFORM GROUP
 

• What has been said?

• Toward a World of Worker-Capitalists, by José Piñera (The Boston Conversazioni, 2001)

• José Piñera at the World Bank Reform Club (November 7, 2000)

• UK: Chile's hot pension model for Britain, by Bill Jamieson (The Sunday Telegraph, January 28, 1996)

• Slovakia: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by Jan Oravec (Hayek Foundation, 2006)

• Australia: followed Chile in 1992, by Dan Mitchell

• Colombia: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by Juan Manuel Santos (Economía y Sociedad, 1995)

• Peru: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by Carlos Boloña (Cato Institute Conference, London, December 1997)

• Poland: The creation of personal retirement accounts (1995); Ten years later (2005), by Krzysztof Ostaszewski

• Poland: Money to the People, by Krzysztof Ostaszewski

• Poland: Introduction to the Polish edition of José Piñera's book, by Waclaw Wilczynski (1996)

• Kazakhstan: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by Emily S. Andrews (ECSHD, World Bank, XXX)

• Russia: World's Reformers Pay Putin a Visit (The Moscow Times, April 12, 2004)

• Russia: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by Leon Aron (AEI Online, July 16, 2004)

• Armenia: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by José Piñera (XXX)

• Sweden: The creation of personal retirement accounts, by Jeremy Hildreth (Investor's Business Daily, September 8, 2001)

• Slovakia: Tax and Pension Reform, by Marian Tupy (The Wall Street Journal Europe, February 17, 2005)

• United Kingdom: Labor minister Frank Field meets José Piñera, by Bill Jamieson (The Telegraph, May 1997)

• República Dominicana: Dos gladiadores por la capitalización”, 14 de abril, 2025

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USA
 

• What has been said?

• Open Letter to President Clinton, by José Piñera (Wall Street Journal, April 10, 1998)

• Midnight at the House of Good and Evil, by José Piñera ("An Austrian in Spain", edited by Kurt Leube, January 2025)

• José Piñera speaks at White House conference on Social Security (White House Summit on Social Security, December 9, 1998)

• The White House Conference on Social Security (December 2, 1998)

• Empowering People with Savings, Choice and Dignity, testimony by José Piñera before the Senate Committee on Banking (U.S. Senate, June 26, 1997)

• The Case for Privatizing America's Social Security System, by Ed Crane (S.O.S Retraite Santé, France, December 10, 1997)

• USA and the Chilean Libretita, by Marvin Olasky (July 2002)

• How Bush Lost Personal Accounts, by Peter Ferrara and Denison Smith (2008)

• Hispanics Would Disproportionately Benefit from Social Security Choice, by Ian Vásquez (Cato Conference on "Hispanics and Social Security", May 21, 2002)

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EUROPE
 

• What has been said?

• Will the Pension Time Bomb Sink the Euro?, by José Piñera (Cato Journal, Spring-Summer 2004)

• A Way Out of Europe's Pension Crisis, by José Piñera (Wall Street Journal, June 25, 1998)

• The coming European crisis, by José Piñera (Video Fox Business News, February, 2010)

• A Pension Reform Proposal for Spain, by José Piñera (Círculo de Empresarios, July 1996)

• Bring on the Pension Reform, editorial (The Wall Street Journal Europe, December 23, 1997)

• Pension Reform: What an Ageing Europe can learn from Chile?, by Kristian Niemietz

• Bye-bye Bismarck, by Antony P. Mueller

• José Piñera: La Via Cilena Alla Previdenza, by Marco Panara (La Repubblica, May 25, 1998)

• Les retraites et le future de l’Euro, by José Piñera (Cato Journal, Spring-Summer 2004)

• Una propuesta de reforma del sistema de pensiones en España, por José Piñera (Resumen Ejecutivo, Julio 1996)​​

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ASIA
 

• What has been said?​

• The China challenge, by Hugo Restall (The Asian Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2001) 

• Towards individual accounts in China, by Zhao Yaohui

• A Fix for China's Pensions, by Jim Dorn

• Japan: Profound demographic crisis, by José Piñera (Nihon Keizai Shimbum, June1998)

• Korea considers the Chilean Model, by Harry Ha (Korean Times)

• India considers the Chilean Model, by M. K. Venu

• A Consolidated Model of Pensions for India, by Nandita Markandan​

 

AFRICA
 

• What has been said?

• Africa: Cómo se inició el sistema de capitalización, por Carlos Gómez.

• Nigeria: Cómo se inició el sistema de capitalización, por Stephen Oluemi Obasa

• Savings to Dignity, by Elias Masilela (Cape Town Press Club, July 26, 2010)