Chile's Candidates Agree to Agree on Pension Woes
Candidates vying to become the next Chilean president agree on very few things. However, they concur on one important point: the country's much vaunted and much copied privatized pension system needs immediate repair. Among the ideas being considered are increasing and expanding the minimum pension, as well as measures to allow individual contributors to "bundle" together into larger groups so as to be able to negotiate better terms with pension funds.
See "Chile's Candidates Agree to Agree on Pension Woes", Larry Rohter, The New York Times, January 9, 2006