Pensions
- How European countries can manage the rising costs of pension systems
- R. Beetsma; H. Oksanen / CESifo, 2007
- In anticipation of the rising costs associated with ageing, European countries are reforming their pension systems, by reducing the generosity of pension arrangements, increasing retirement age and switching from pure Pay-As-You-Go (P...
- Alternative pension schemes for informal workers in El Salvador
- N.E.A. Joya / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2007
- This paper explores obstacles and opportunities to expand social protection for informal workers in El Salvador. It rules out the short-term possibility that old-age social protection in El Salvador will be expanded throug...
- Causes of market frictions in the Chilean pension system
- O.S. Mitchell; P. Todd; D. Bravo / Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
- This working paper examines consumer knowledge about the Chilean pension system, to determine whether financial illiteracy might account for the persistence of market frictions in the pension marketplace. It uses a change in the regul...
- Pendragon
- Pensions information service
- Is there a future for universal pension schemes?
- R. Vos; R. Kozul-Wright; A. A. / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2007
- In response to arguments that demographic pressure is making existing pension schemes unaffordable, this policy brief suggests that increasing the retirement age or altering fiscal incentives can alleviate the financial pressure on pe...
- Retirement and the life-scycle model
- D.E Bloom; D. Canning; M. Moore / Harvard School of Public Health, 2007
- In this paper the authors construct a life-cycle model. It shows that at higher levels of lifetime wages, the desire for increased leisure leads to early retirement funded through higher savings rates. Simultaneously, longer life span...
- The effects of having pensioners in the household on South African labour supply responses
- C. Ardington; A. Case; V. Hosegood / Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University, 2007
- This paper quantifies the labour supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal data collected in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The authors c...
- How to bridge the gap between economic theory and practice in pension systems- the Moroccan example
- A. Bodor; D. Robalino; M. Rutkowski 2007
- Defined benefit pension systems, usually financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, often embed bad microeconomic design features that create distortions in savings and labour demand/supply decisions. This paper focuses on two that are releva...
- 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 ...
- It is in the boomers’ best interests to invest in integration of immigrants to bolster the ranks of workers, taxpayers, and homeowners
- D. Myers / Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
- The state of California leads all other states in America with its 27 percent foreign-born share in the population, and it therefore represents the leading edge of demographic changes in America as a whole. Slowly and reluctantly the ...
- Policy debate continues on the coverage of pension systems in Latin America
- R. Roffman; L. Luchetti / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2007
- This paper documents the findings of a project designed to measure pension coverage based on information from household surveys in Latin America. It represents an expansion of a previous analysis and describes the level, trends and pr...
- Korea must confront the ageing of its popuation while it is still in the midst of modernisation
- N. Howe; R. Jackson; K. Nakashima / Global Aging Initiative Program, 2007
- With life expectancy rising and birthrates plumbing record lows, Korea is about to undergo a stunning demographic transformation. According to the latest government projections, 38 percent of Korea’s population will be elderly by...
- Reforms are vital for future Ugandan Government pension liabilities
- T. Bogomolova; G. Impavido; M. Pallares-Miralles / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
- This paper analyses the future liabilities that the Ugandan Public Service Pensions Fund (PSPF) might accumulate under the provisions of the Pension Act (CAP 286), unless it is reformed. It then discusses alternative reform options th...
- Many widows in Rajasthan are living outside the social safety net
- S. Dutta / International Budget Partnership, 2007
- This study of Rajasthan argues that rural women in Rajasthan constitute the most deprived, downtrodden, illiterate, neglected and the weakest group of the population. It asks the question that if this is the condition of women in gene...
- South African plans to complete and coordinate a social protection system
- National Treasury, Government of South Africa, 2007
- South Africa’s social security reform challenge is unusual in several respects. A redistributive social assistance programme is in place and there are well-established occupational and individual retirement funding schemes, but S...
- Asian countries still lack comprehensive policy frameworks to address aged populations
- P. S. Heller / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2006
- Many Asian countries will experience a significant ageing of their populations during the next decades. This paper explores how these countries are addressing and anticipating the challenges of an ageing society. It suggests that Asia...
- Formalising the pension system in Turkey whilst still protecting pension rights
- A-M. Brook; E. Whitehouse / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006
- Recent social security reform in Turkey has significantly improved the long-term sustainability of its pension system. This working paper discusses a number of further reforms that would better address old-age poverty concerns at all ...
- Social pensions - a win-win policy option
- HelpAge International, 2006
- The provision of social pensions - state provided non-contributory regular cash transfers to older citizens, given at specific ages, is increasingly being seen as a win-win policy, reducing the poverty of older people and their depend...
- Non-contributory pensions can help provide effective poverty policy responses
- A. Barrientos / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
- The paper reviews the contribution that new survey evidence for developing countries is making to an improved understanding of incidence and characteristics of old age poverty and of the role of non-contributory pensions in providing ...
- 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.
