Pensions
- Ways to improve the supervision of private pension systems
- International Organisation of Pension Supervisors, 2007
- This series of four working papers highlights a range of challenges to be met in the development of national pension supervisory systems. As the proportion of retirement income provided by private pensions becomes increasin...
- Credit crunch Baby Boomers are robbing Peter to pay Paul
- House Financial Services Committee (U.S Government), 2007
- This is a transcript of a U.S. House of Representatives hearing that focused on credit card issues facing older consumers, causing rising levels of personal debt, especially among fixed-income older Americans. The hearing also looked ...
- Chilean disability benefits system offers lessons for other countries
- E. James; A. Iglesias; A. Cox Edwards / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2008
- Social security systems in many countries face problems of high and escalating disability costs. The disability insurance system in Chile is less well-known than the old age pension system, but it is equally innovative. This paper ana...
- The official poverty measure in the United States fails to reflect modern day spending needs
- B.A. Butrica; D. Murphy; S.R. Zedlewski / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
- The dramatic decline in the official poverty rate of adults age 65 and older over the last four decades in the United States leads many to assume that reducing poverty among older adults need not be a Government priority. This general...
- European governments consider reforms to ensure sustainability of public pension systems
- C. Nickel; P. Rother; A. Theophilopoulou / European Central Bank, 2008
- This paper addresses the issue of pension reforms under demographic changes that are likely to occur in Europe over the next 50 years. This demographic change is characterised not only by lower population growth but also by the altera...
- Improving protection of the social, economic and political rights of the elderly poor in Pakistan
- N. Mahmood; Z.M. Nasir / Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 2008
- Currently in Pakistan the provision of regular pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security schemes that are operational in the public and private sectors cover a small proportion of old-age populat...
- Social security for immigrants in the US
- P. Sevak; L. Schmidt / University of Michigan Retirement Research Center, 2007
- This paper examines the retirement resources available to immigrant families in the US by examining Social Security benefits, pension coverage, and private wealth accumulation. The authors argue that pre-retirement immigrants have low...
- University of Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC)
- Retirement and pension research
- Department of Pensions, Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan government pension information
- The difference between private and public employer-sponsored pension plans in the United States
- A.H. Munnell; M. Soto / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
- This brief identifies the key differences between employer-sponsored plans in the private and public sectors, including: in the private sector the plans are mostly 401(k)s, less than half of the workforce is covered, an...
- Women's retirement age in Vietnam creates pension and job inequalities
- G. Sabharwal; T. Thien Huong / Eldis Document Store, 2007
- Despite the rapid pace of economic change in Vietnam, this paper argues that the country remains wedded to the principle of differential retirement age for women and men across all sectors of the economy, including the civil service. ...
- Legal moves to ensure that family support of the elderly is maintained in India
- Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2007
- This brief highlights the main clauses of the 2007 Indian bill that makes it a legal obligation for Indian children and heirs to provide maintenance to senior citizens, and also permits state governments to establish old age homes in ...
- Is the Indian pension scheme not so unsustainable afterall?
- ESocialSciences, 2007
- A consensus appears to have been reached among economists, financial experts, planners and policy makers that the present non-contributory and defined benefit nature of the Indian pension system for all government employees is unsusta...
- Eastern European and former Soviet countries expected to feel extreme economic impacts of demographic changes
- M. Chawla; G. Betcherman; A. Banerji / World Bank, 2007
- The countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are experiencing a third transition, a transition that overlaps with their recent political and economic transitions. This third transition is unique. No other countries in t...
- What will be the long term impact of a shrinking labour force having to support an increasingly larger older population?
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2007
- The World Economic and Social Survey 2007analyses the challenges and opportunities associated with ageing populations and aims to facilitate discussions in furthering the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, adopted in 2002....
- Potential for micro-pensions to play a useful role in India's social security system
- M.G. Asher; S. Shankar / ESocialSciences, 2007
- This paper argues that micro-pensions can play a limited but useful role if they are brought into the mainstream of the financial system. It looks at the nature and design of micro-pensions in , discusses channels for expanding covera...
- A review of 15 public pension funds engaged in socially responsible investment
- United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2007
- This report highlights responsible investment strategies being employed by some of the world’s leading public pension funds. It contains 15 case studies offering a snapshot of some of the most advanced approaches to responsible ...
- Are Chileans employed in the informal sector by chance or by choice?
- T.G. Packard / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
- To asses the coverage of Chile’s social insurance and pensions plan, this paper examines shifts in the country's labour market during a period of economic contraction. Employment in the formal sector requires workers to save for...
- What factors affect the retirement decisions of older men in Indonesia?
- D. McKee, / California Center for Population Research, USA, 2007
- In the absence of broad formal retirement support, many older people rely on their own labour income and extended families for support in the form of transfer payments, co-residence, and participation in family businesses. But sustain...
- Pension reform and poverty alleviation in Kosovo
- J. Gubbels; D. Snelbecker; L. Zezulin / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2007
- This paper describes the reform of the pension system in Kosovo, and discusses policy issues and implementation experience. The pension system in Kosovo has three pillars: Pillar I: an old-age "basic pension" (pa...
- 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...
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- BBVA Research (BBVA)
- Research wing of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, a multinational banking and financial services organisation. Originally Spanish, it has a major presence in Latin America. Research outputs cover: Macroeconomic Analysis Sectorial Analysis Global Trends Pensions
- Global Extension of Social Security
- GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and r...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- Kwa Wazee
- Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania. Kwa Wazee, which started in November 2003 with a very small number of beneficiaries, has since aradually extended to over 300 grandmothers, who were caring for over 400 orphans by the end of 2005. Feedback from the elderly beneficiaries, as well as by observers in their neighbourhoods, shows that even the m...
- African Econometric Society (AES)
- The African Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Members of the society are associated with academic instutions, and the private and public sectors who share the goal of advancing econometric research, especially but not limited to African themes.
