- Safety net arrangements for elderly Africans
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
- Non-contributory state pensions were introduced in South Africa in 1928. Eligibility was extended to White Namibians in the 1940s but to African Namibians only in 1973. Initially motivated by a complex combination of welfarist ...
- Pension Reform: Lessons from Latin America
- M. Queisser / OECD Development Centre, 1999
- There are benefits from Latin American pension reform, but they have been overestimated. The approaches taken in second-generation reforms and their still early results hold lessons for OECD and non-OECD countries alike. A partial shi...
- Pension Fund Investment from Ageing to Emerging Markets
- B. Fischer; H. Reisen / OECD Development Centre, 1994
- The rapid ageing of populations in the rich economies can be expected to stimulate strong growth in private funded pensions, providing a massive potential of foreign finance for developing countries. Pension managers can reap big dive...
- Reforming Indonesia's Pension System
- Chad Leechor / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Key options for reforming Indonesia's pension system: reshape the mandatory defined contribution plan (Jamsostek), make employer sponsored pensions more attractive and affordable, and contain the fiscal burden of civil service plans (...
- Stock market development and financial intermediaries : stylized facts
- Demirguc - Kunt Asli; R Levine / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The three most developed stock markets are in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and the most underdeveloped markets are in Colombia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. Markets tend to be more developed in richer countri...
- New Systems for Old Age Security: Theory, Practice, and Empirical Evidence
- E. James / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Initial empirical investigations suggest that countries concerned about growth should consider pension reform a potentially powerful tool for improving the welfare of both old and young. James summarizes the major findings and ...
- 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...
- 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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