The debate about “overpopulation” is less about numbers of people than about rights (to land, water, food and livelihoods, for example), about markets, private property and inequality, and about relationships of power between different groups of people.
Private Pensions, Corporate Welfare and Growing Insecurity
Richard Minns with Sarah Sexton
1 May 2006
This briefing outlines the different ways in which countries have financed both social security for older people and economic production. It describes the rise of the private model of pensions and the influence of pension funds on capital flows around the world. It then summarises and critiques the main justifications given for expanding private pension schemes, and analyses the motivations of the groups that perpetuate this model.
