- Securing UK pensions beyond 2020
- D. Blake; L. Mayhew / Pensions Institute, 2004
- Paper suggests that as a result of population ageing and declining fertility, the UK state pension system is unlikely to remain viable in the very long run without a steady inflow of young immigrant workers from abroad. Beyond 2020, f...
- Initial analysis of the UK pensions and retirement savings system
- Pensions Commission, 2004
- This report presents the findings of an analysis of the UK pensions and retirement savings system. It describes the present situation, the trends in place, and the challenges which need to be met. It does not make specific recommendat...
- Replacement migration and policies to increase fertility can help slow but not stop Europe’s population ageing
- J. Grant; S. Hoorens; S. Sivadasan; M. Van Het Loo; J. Davanzo; L. Hale; S. Gibson; W. Butz / RAND Corporation, 2004
- This paper examines the interrelations between European government policies and demographic trends and behaviour, and assesses which policies can prevent or mitigate the adverse consequences of current low fertility and population age...
- Can China grow rich before it grows old?
- R. Jackson; N. Howe / Global Aging Initiative Program, 2004
- Report explores the economic and social implications of the coming age wave. By 2040, assuming current demographic trends continue, there will be 397 million Chinese elders, (adults aged 60 and over) which is more than the total curre...
- Survey of social pension schemes in developing countries
- HelpAge International, 2004
- This report focuses on social pension programmes (involving non-contributory pensions targeted at the poor). It sets out the economic and political issues,provides case study evidence (including the views of older people already recei...
- Elderly households are seeing benefits of transfer of wealth through privatized housing
- R. Buckley; K. Cartwright; R. Struyk; E. Szymanoski / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- The elderly in Russia have often been among those least able to cope with all the changes that have taken place during the country's transionary period. Unlike the situation prior to reform - when pensions were stable - they now face ...
- Assessment of the possible applications of NDC model pension schemes
- J. B. Williamson; M. Williams / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2003
- Most public old-age pension schemes around the world are based at least in part on the pay-as-you-go defined benefit (PAYGO DB) model. As these schemes have matured and the limitations of this approach have become more salient, pensio...
- Indian Social Security schemes. Neither social nor secure?
- P. Madhava Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2004
- Paper looks at proposed pension reforms aimed at provision for civil servants. It discusses and highlights possible limitations and insecurities and argues whether India should opt for such drastic changes in its current state of pove...
- Refoming India's disibility rights system
- P. Madhava Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2004
- The paper argues that current Social Security programmes are employment related and do not appear to pay special attention to the disabled. To be eligible for benefits one has to become disabled after gaining employment. This approach...
- Examining the impact of public health spending on longevity in Russia
- O. Ivaschenko / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic pa...
- How can China provide income security for its rapidly aging population? / Barry Friedman ... [et al.]
- Barry Friedman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- If China implements a partially funded multipillar pension system, that reform must go hand in hand with reform of the financial sector and restructured investment procedures that emphasize the "right" mix of competition, diversificat...
- Poverty, social exclusion and discriminatory attitudes are setting age limits to human rights
- HelpAge International, 2000
- Paper proposes a framework for action and argues that older people are a critical – and largely ignored – indicator of progress in relation to both human rights and development.
- Global policy database on ageing
- United Nations Programme on Ageing, 1999
- Database covering national and international policies and programmes on ageing. Can be searched by country, sector, target group.
- New models for old age security - how can they be applied in China?
- E. James / China Country Office, World Bank, 1998
- China's current pension system has two severe problems: the urgent and immediate problem of the pension burden of state-owned enterprises, and the longer-term problem arising from the rapid aging of the population. The current system ...
- What measures of social protection can be put in place both to alleviate poverty and to minimize the risk that individuals fall into poverty?
- International Labour Organization, 2000
- Increasing globalization and trade liberalization are creating greater insecurity for many income earners. This study examines the changing context in which women and men are trying to achieve income security for themselves and their ...
- Still working into old age - the Indonesian perspective
- L. Cameron; D.A. Cobb-Clark / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2001
- Without broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries are left to rely on their own current and accumulated earnings and support from children as means of old-age support. The authors d...
- Why do grandmothers prefer girls? The effects of pensions on child nutrition
- E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
- This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded ...
- Many pension plans are clearly unsustainable, and difficult reforms will be necessary
- J. Stiglitz; R. Holzmann / Pensions Online, World Bank, 2001
- Book reflecting World Bank's latest thinking in the global debate over pension reform. While many developing countries have basic pension systems in place, mostly covering only some 10 to 30 percent of the working population (up to 50...
- First major study produced on impending pension crisis
- Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1994
- Analyses the issues affecting income security for the elderly in both developing and industrial nations. Systems providing financial security for the old are under increasing strain throughout the world. Changing demographics have led...
- Old age provision in light of the East Asian economic crisis
- R. Holzmann; I.W. MacArthur; Y. Sin / Pensions Online, World Bank, 2000
- This paper reviews the most important challenges to old age income systems in the region and examines opportunities for their design or reform. While covering all the region’s countries in principle, the paper concentrates on tho...
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi
- The Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation is Malawi Government's main planning agency responsible for national economic and development planning, and monitoring and evaluation of socio-economic issues in the country. Its main mandate is to provide professional advice and technical support to Government and the public on economic and social policy development and management so as to achi...
- University of Western Australia
- Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Meeting on the Second Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2012
- Review of Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
- Department of Economics, Towson University
- Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
- CARDI is a not for profit organisation developed by leaders from the ageing field across Ireland (North and South) including age focused researchers, academics, statutory, voluntary and community sector representatives. It aims to advocate for and advance the ageing research agenda by identifying, coordinating, stimulating, and communicating strategic research on ageing and older peopl...
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