- Pension funds in Central Europe and Russia : their prospects and potential role in corporate governance
- Dimitri Vittas; Roland Michelitsch / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The severe financial pressures on the social pension systems of transitional countries in Central Europe and Russia could be alleviated by down sizing and restructuring the public pillar of the system and by creating private pension f...
- Pension systems and reforms : country experiences and research issues
- Patricio Arrau; Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Country experiences of old age social security arrangements, and 15 research and policy design issues not addressed in the literature. Pension reform is spreading around the globe, from Latin America to the OECD countries, and ...
- Pension reform and growth
- Giancarlo Corsetti; Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Replacing a payasyougo pension system with a fully funded scheme could eliminate the incentives (under the pay as you go system) to informalize production and employment. Simulations of an endogenous growth model suggest that long-ter...
- Promoting economic growth in Sri Lanka: lessons from East Asia
- Sadiq Ahmed; Priya Ranjan / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Why, despite solid progress in human development and in the reduction of consumption poverty, has Sri Lanka's per capita income fallen far behind the dynamic East Asian economies? Sri Lanka's weaker growth performance was the result o...
- Costa Rican pension system : options for reform
- Asli Demirguc - Kunt; Anita Schwarz / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Costa Rica's demographic structure is becoming increasingly unfavorable, and its pension system is maturing, so reform of the social security system should be implemented without delay. One option for comprehensive reform is to move t...
- The World Bank primer on reinsurance
- Donald A. McIsaac; David F. Babbel / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- A primer on reinsurance terms and concepts, covering the purposes of reinsurance, the nature of reinsurance contracts, the economics of risk transfer, the characteristics of reinsurance risk, and the market for, and regulation of, rei...
- Poverty, inequality, and social policy in transition economies
- Branko Milanovic / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- What happens to poverty and income inequality during the early period of transition to a market economy? Poverty is on the rise, and income inequality widens. Better targeting of social assistance and pension reform are the necessary ...
- Financial history : lessons of the past for reformers of the present
- Gerard Caprio; Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The environment in which financial institutions operate has changed greatly, but the history of financial development offers important lessons for today. Among the lessons financial history offers: Macroeconomic stabilit...
- Thrift deposit institutions in Europe and the United States
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The history of development of U.S. and European thrift deposit institutions (banking for the poor) yields lessons for today's developing countries. The financial systems in most developing countries today have many features in ...
- The development of industrial pensions in the United States during the twentieth century
- Samuel H. Williamson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- A survey of the development of pensions in the United States, addressing such issues as what employees want from pensions, what incentives the employer has to create pensions, and what desirable effects industrial pensions have on the...
- How best to measure pension adequacy
- A.G. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2013
- Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the for...
- The design and implementation of public pension systems in developing countries: Issues and options
- Program on the Global Demography of Aging, 2013
- Developing countries are increasingly aware of the need to design and implement improvements in public systems for providing pensions to the elderly. Such systems may aim to smooth consumption and thus provide reliable income to older...
- China’s pension system: a vision
- World Bank, 2013
- China is facing a dramatic ageing process and demographic transition as a result of declines in fertility combined with significant increases in longevity. Old-age dependency ratios are therefore projected to almost triple over three ...
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- Asia’s demographic transition will adversely affect its economic growth
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that c...
- Rapid population ageing means challenges for Myanmar
- HelpAge International, 2013
- Myanmar’s population is beginning to age rapidly. According to UN projections, by 2050 older people will comprise a quarter of Myanmar’s total population. Shortly after 2035, persons aged 60 and older will outnumber ...
- Experiences of matching defined contribution pension schemes
- World Bank, 2013
- Matching defined contribution schemes are gaining popularity in both rich and poor countries as a promising means to reduce gaps in the participation in formal pension systems. Matching contributions by employers, the government, or b...
- Youthquake: will Melanesian democracy be sunk by demography?
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2010
- One area where there is similarity between the Middle East and Melanesia is demographics. Both have large, youthful populations that are tired of the status quo and leaders who have failed to manage change, including generational chan...
- Slowing population growth in Malawi is essential for poverty reduction strategies to work
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi, 2012
- Malawi adds over 400,000 people each year to its population. Without a reduction in the average number of births per woman, health, education and employment services will be overstretched. This trend will continue to challenge the cou...
- Old age support in rural China
- F. Cai; J. Giles; P.O. Keefe / World Bank, 2012
- Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. This book explores th...
- 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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