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Symposium "Pension Reform in the English-Speaking Caribbean"

(06/03, En)

Inter-American Development Bank

Caribbean Development Bank

Symposium

Pension Reform in the English-Speaking Caribbean

June 4-6, 2003

Caribbean Development Bank Headquarters, Barbados

The Inter-American Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank have launched the Pension Reform Initiative in the Caribbean to disseminate information and provide support to help improve pensions systems in the English-Speaking Caribbean countries.

This Symposium is one of the components of this Initiative. The main objective of the Symposium was to highlight and raise awareness on key policy and technical considerations for designing, implementing, reforming, managing, operating, and supervising pension schemes.

Some of the main issues covered include in the Symposium were:

• The state of pension systems in the Caribbean;

• Best practices in reforming pension systems in emerging economies (with a special emphasis for small emerging economies);

• Understanding the role of private and public pension fund managers;

• Relationship between financial and capital market development and pension systems; and

• Review of the experiences of other countries.

The symposium targeted practitioners in the field, pension fund managers and senior executives in insurance companies, government officials and representatives of civil society.

     Agenda

     Presentations

Policy Seminar

This event, led by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) focused on the key decisions in planning pension reform. It was an extension of the symposium but it focused more directly on the challenges for policy makers. In this seminar, key decisions in planning pension reform were explored, and various pension models were evaluated. The policy seminar targeted officials who manage pension systems and to those that are responsible for implementing the reforms will follow.

For additional information, please contact us at sds/ifm@iadb.org

Infrastructure and Financial Markets Division

Private Enterprise and Financial Markets Subdepartment

Sustainable Development Department

Inter-American Development Bank

Last updated: 10/14/05

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