- Sequencing social security, pension and insurance reform
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The full benefits of social security reform will not be realized until social pension systems are restructured and downsized, contribution rates lowered, and the scope for private pension funds (voluntary or mandatory) increased. Refo...
- Protecting the old and promoting growth : a defense of averting the old age crisis
- Estelle James / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- A summary of recommendations in the recent World Bank report on old age security programs, and an analysis of why the International Labour Organisation and the International Social Security Association came to different policy conclus...
- Averting the Old Age Crisis: Technical Annex
- R.J. Palacios / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Supporting documentation for the World Bank publication Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth (1994). Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth, the public...
- Social insurance in the transition to a market economy : theoretical issues with application to Moldova
- Deborah Mabbett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- What is the proper mix of social insurance and social assistance in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union? Social security systems in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union devote most of th...
- Private pension funds in Hungary : early performance and regulatory issues
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- The early performance of Hungary's voluntary private pension funds suggests that concerns about Hungary's ability to implement successful pension reform may be exaggerated. Despite the limited scope resulting from the high payr...
- Pensions in Germany
- Monika Queisser / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- Germany's pension system has a multipillar structure and relies increasingly on privately funded plans. Its public pillar is not as generous or redistributive as is often claimed. Germany's pension system was originally designe...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- HelpAge - job vacancies
- Jobs with HelpAge
- Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Research centre on ageing issues
- Centre for Research in Economic Analysis
- Economic integration issues
- The Graying of AIDS
- Resources on HIV/AIDS and the elderly
