What is the International Social Security Association?

[John K. Taber]

I stumbled on this URL http://www.aiss.org/ and rooting
around I came across _Restructuring Public Pension
Programs_ by Larry Thompson of the Urban Institute.
It is also entitled  _The Social Security Reform Debate: 
In Search of a New Consensus_.

I would appreciate any help on the provenance of this
report. For one thing, it contains a table showing 
Social Security expenditures as 15.2% of GDP. This is
incredibly high. The Trustees Report gives 4.6% of 
GDP.

The table footnotes say that the 15.2% figure is obtained
from the International Labour Organization. Isn't the ILO
a capitalist front?

And what do you all think of the Urban Institute?

I suspect that the "report" is tendentious and unusable,
but I would like the opinion of lbotists.

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