Pensions
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- Persuading those who have little today to save for tomorrow
- ( D. Uthira;H.L. Manohar / International Research Journal of Finance and Economics , 2009)
- The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme. It provides individual retirement accounts, product choic...
- Wake-up call for employer-sponsored defined contribution pension schemes
- ( Watson Wyatt , 2009)
- The current financial crisis has been a wake-up call for employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) pension schemes....
- Methods to reduce the debt of pensions in Colombia
- ( S. Clavijo / International Monetary Fund , 2009)
- Colombia established pension benefits in 1967, through the creation of the public Pay-as-You-Go System (PAYGO). However, this system quickly dissolved into a crisis as a result of low participation ra...
- Policy recommendations to improve the design of private pensions
- ( P. Antolín;F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2009)
- The current financial crisis has had a major impact on global pension assets, with the OECD estimating declines of over 20% at the end of 2008. This is putting pressure on funding levels for defined b...
- Improving social safety nets and labour market policies for an aging Asia
- ( K.W. Lee / Korea Institute for International Economic Policy , 2009)
- Countries in East and Southeast Asia are currently undergoing unprecedented double shocks: globalisation and demographic transition. This paper attempts to highlight the nature and magnitude of the im...
- Ensuring consistency of labour market reforms and pension reform
- ( R. Holzmann;L. MacKellar;J. Repanšek / World Bank , 2009)
- The papers and country statements in this volume are revised and updated versions of papers prepared for the conference “International Forum on Pension Reform: Exploring the Link to Labor and Fi...
- China’s ageing population could mean slower economic growth and mounting social stress
- ( R. Jackson;K. Nakashima;N. Howe / Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington , 2009)
- China’s working-age population will shrink as its elderly population explodes. Unless China prepares for the challenge, a retirement crisis of immense proportions looms just over the horizon. No...
- Pension provision for the self-employed is a matter of practical implementation of existing schemes
- ( J. Choi / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2009)
- The self-employed workers make up a small but significant minority of the workforce in many OECD countries. Moreover, transitions into and out of self-employment have become much more common for a lar...
- Where does Europe stand on pension benefits?
- ( J. Draxler / Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels , 2009)
- While social policy continues to be very much under the control of the individual member states, the EU dimension is increasingly important. Some regulation of pension investment is provided under the...
- Pension reform proposal would allow couples and individuals to specialise in either income or child raising activities
- ( A. Cigno / Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics , 2009)
- Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy wh...
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