Pensions
- 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...
- 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...
- How has the Chilean pension system improved since its reform?
- A. Arenas de Mesa; D. Bravo; J. R. Behrman; O. S. Mitchell; P. E. Todd / Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
- In 1980, Chile dramatically reformed its retirement system, replacing what was an old insolvent PAYGO programme with a new structure (AFP System) that relies heavily on funded defined contribution individual accounts. In addition, eli...
- A gender impact analysis of pension schemes
- S. Steinhilber / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
- This paper critically analyses the gender dimensions of pension schemes, drawing detailed examples from pension reform schemes in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The paper provides the analysis along two axes: structures regu...
- The impact of the social pension scheme in South Africa
- A. Case; A. Deaton / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1996
- This paper critically examines the social pension system for the elderly in South Africa. The paper explores the impact of this cash transfer on allocation for food, schooling, transfers and savings. The paper begins by giving ...
- Policies to make economic and social rights a reality in Latin America and the Caribbean
- United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006
- The starting point for this study is the principle that a rights-based approach should be used in framing public policy. The study therefore seeks to address the challenge of combining the ethical aspect of social rights with viable w...
- Vietnam's current pension scheme is not financially sustainable as the population ages
- Giang-Thanh Long / Vietnam Development Forum, 2004
- This paper describes the publicly-managed Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) defined-benefit pension scheme in Vietnam and analyses its financial sustainability in the context of an ageing society in a dynamically efficient economy By using ...
- Making working longer an attractive financial proposition for older workers
- Ageing Society, 2006
- This report makes the case for a new agenda of reform which it claims would not only help offset the negative potential effects of population ageing on public budgets and economic growth, but would also promote choice for older worker...
- UK's Pension Commission restates its call for increased public spending on pensions, greater saving for retirement and later working
- Pensions Commission, 2006
- This document is intended as the final Pensions Commission contribution to the debate on recommendations for pension policy. It comments on specific issues which have arisen and responds to some of the major arguments presented after ...
- Will workers have to work longer to suppost a growing number of dependants?
- A. Webb / International Longevity Centre, 2005
- This paper questions the usefulness of the dependency ratio as a means for measuring future burdens of population dependency. It argues that the dependency ratio (the number of persons aged under 18 or over 64 compared to the number a...
- Would more Indonesian men participate in pension schemes if given the chance?
- D. McKee / California Center for Population Research, USA, 2006
- This paper builds and estimates a structural dynamic model to simulate the effects of demographic change on labour supply for older men in Indonesia It evaluates two possible public pension reforms, which may be necessary to address t...
- World Bank's reforms fail to provide adequate pensions within fiscal constraint
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2006
- This report is the first evaluation of the Bank’s involvement in pension reform between 1984 and 2004, during which time the Bank assisted 68 countries with reform of their pension systems with loans and credits. It assess...
- 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.
