- Mixed performance of pension fund managers in Chile
- A. Barrientos; A. Boussofiane / Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2001
- This paper provides an outline of the main features of the new pension fund management market established by pension reform and explains the focus on the efficiency of the new pension fund managers and identifies the key issues for an...
- Are basic pensions for all feasible in a developing country?
- L. Willmore / International Social Security Association, 2003
- This paper examines the past and future of non-contributory, universal pensions in Mauritius, concluding with some lessons that might be useful for other countries, particularly in the developing world. It gives a historical take on t...
- Can informal social security mechanisms be sustained in the long term?
- A. Dekker / International Social Security Association, 2003
- This paper gives a brief overview of the current formal social security provisioning in South Africa with regards to old age and retirement benefits. It then investigates issues impacting on the ageing population namely unemployment, ...
- Preventing social exclusion in Europe in old age
- P. Bridgen; T. Meyer / International Social Security Association, 2003
- Increasing the role of the private sector in pension systems is one aspect of a ‘new orthodoxy’ promoted by the World Bank since the mid-1990s. This ‘new orthodoxy’ has been criticised by the ILO, ISSA and most com...
- What works best for targeting social protection for the poor?
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This paper synthesises current thinking and evidence on a number of issues around the design and impact of social protection programmes, including: the case for and against targeting resource transfers; alterna...
- Unemployment in China
- E. Gu / International Labour Organization, 2003
- China is suffering from mass unemployment. Millions of former lifetime employees have been laid-off since 1993. Before market transition, the Chinese labour regime was characterized by a state labour allocation system in which all for...
- Impact of the economic crisis on Thailand's young and elderly populations
- World Bank, 1998
- Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries. Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: ...
- Narrrowing the gender gap in pension reforms
- E. James; A. Cox Edwards; R. Wong / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- Pension systems may have a different impact on gender because women are less likely than men to work in formal labor markets and earn lower wages when they do. Recent multipillar pension reforms tighten the link between payroll contri...
- Investigating the consequences of the AIDS epidemic for older African adults
- Z. Zimmer; J. Dayton / Population Council, USA, 2003
- Paper examines the living arrangements of persons aged 60 and older in 16 countries. Data come from the household roster component of recent Demographic and Health Surveys. The focus is on the tendency of the elderly to live with chil...
- If countries delay too long, they will find themselves reforming pensions amid economic and social crisis
- R. Jackson / Global Aging Initiative Program, 2002
- This report surveys the state of public pension reform worldwide, with special emphasis on the challenges facing the developed countries. Chapters cover the following topic areas: Behind the Projections: quantifies the ...
- Pension Reform: Is There a Tradeoff between Efficiency and Equity?
- E. James / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- The pension reforms being undertaken in Latin America seem to be improving efficiency and growth, but they should also be designed to improve equity. It is possible for pension reform to improve both equity and efficiency - producing ...
- Poverty and Social Transfers in Hungary
- C. Grootaert / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Hungary's social safety net could be improved to better target benefits to the poor. Among the possibilities for reform: abolish the child care allowance and fee, institute new child care benefits, and improve means testing for social...
- From Generosity to Sustainability - The Austrian Pension System and Options for its Reform
- Manfred Koch; Christian Thimann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Austria is probably the world.s leader in pension expenditures.not because of its demographic structure but because of the generosity of its pension system. Contributors can obtain 80 percent of the average of their 15 best years of i...
- The Reform of the Pension System in Italy
- A Javier Hamann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- A fundamental reform of the Italian pension system was enacted in August 1995 with the approval of Law 355. The law modified substantially the mechanism for computing retirement benefits, merged the old-age and seniority pension schem...
- Population numbers are predicted to fall, but the number of elderly will still increase
- W. Lutz; W. Sanderson; S. Scherbov / Nature [journal], 2001
- Paper suggests that whilst there has been enormous concern about the consequences of human population growth for the environment and for social and economic development, this growth is likely to come to an end in the foreseeable futur...
- Public versus Private Provision of Pensions
- L. Willmore / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 1998
- Pension systems rest ideally on three pillars: (1) redistribution, (2) forced savings, and (3) voluntary savings. There is consensus that the first pillar is best provided through the State, the third largely through private markets. ...
- Welfare in transition: trends in poverty and well-being in Central Asia
- J. Falkingham / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1999
- Examines the impact of the transition from a planned to a market economy on living standards and welfare in the five Republics of former Soviet Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, along...
- How life in a refugee camp affects gender, age and class relations
- S. Turner / United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999
- Focuses on how the relief operation’s policy of equality challenges older hierarchies of authority. Through an analysis of refugees’ representations of gender relations, relations between generations, and relations between p...
- The Ageing and Development Report: Poverty, Independence and the World’s Older People
- HelpAge International, 1999
- Reviews the state of knowledge of the situation of older people in developing and transitional countries. It seeks to examine the impact which social and economic development policies have had – and could have - on older people s...
- Ageing and Development/Gender Briefings
- HelpAge International, 1999
- Regular news and briefing on the policies and events that affect older people in developing countries.
- 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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