Pensions
- Chinese pension reform has generated complicated and imbalanced incidences
- Z. Li; M. Wu / BBVA Research, 2011
- An ongoing reform in China mandates employers to contribute significant amounts to employee pension funds. This study estimates the impact of this reform on the wage, employment and performance of firms. The document high...
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD ...
- Social protection programmes do not focus on the needs of the elderly
- D.E. Bloom; E. Jimenez; L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
- Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence. Subsequently, only a small portion add...
- Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form
- R. Alves de Mesquita; G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
- In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while ...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
- Pension reform in Argentina made positive outcomes in terms of growth, labour-market and poverty-improvement
- M.L. Alzua; H. Ruffo / Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2011
- In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accounts in the pension system over wages,...
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan need to unite contributory pensions and social assistance if the elderly are to be protected
- E. Mikkonen-Jeanneret; R. Rayapova; N. Yefimov (ed) / HelpAge International, 2011
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan face the simultaneous challenges of a ballooning informal labour force and an ageing population. Pension systems will have difficulty providing adequate social protection to future generations of older people...
- Natural disasters and political unrest in Sudan reinforce the need for stable social security systems
- I.A.W. Mohamed / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2011
- ‘Social Protection Floor’ means an access to essential services and social transfers for the poor and vulnerable. Sudan, the author of this report argues, embodies the necessity for such schemes. The paper shows that pover...
- Cost of universal pensions in developing countries is affordable
- C. Knox-Vydmanov / HelpAge International, 2011
- Social pensions are a vehicle for reducing the poverty of the population as a whole. This paper reviews the cost of universal pensions, suggesting that the cost of universal pensions in developing countries today is affordable. ...
- Are social protection management information systems only software and hardware?
- R. Chirchir; S. Kidd / HelpAge International, 2011
- Management information systems (MISs) are core to the design of social protection schemes. This working paper examines good practice in the design of MISs for social protection. The paper argues that discussions on the design and impl...
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD ...
- Social protection programmes do not focus on the needs of the elderly
- D.E. Bloom; E. Jimenez; L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
- Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence. Subsequently, only a small portion add...
- Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form
- R. Alves de Mesquita; G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
- In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while ...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
- Pension reform in Argentina made positive outcomes in terms of growth, labour-market and poverty-improvement
- M.L. Alzua; H. Ruffo / Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2011
- In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accounts in the pension system over wages,...
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan need to unite contributory pensions and social assistance if the elderly are to be protected
- E. Mikkonen-Jeanneret; R. Rayapova; N. Yefimov (ed) / HelpAge International, 2011
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan face the simultaneous challenges of a ballooning informal labour force and an ageing population. Pension systems will have difficulty providing adequate social protection to future generations of older people...
- Natural disasters and political unrest in Sudan reinforce the need for stable social security systems
- I.A.W. Mohamed / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2011
- ‘Social Protection Floor’ means an access to essential services and social transfers for the poor and vulnerable. Sudan, the author of this report argues, embodies the necessity for such schemes. The paper shows that pover...
- Cost of universal pensions in developing countries is affordable
- C. Knox-Vydmanov / HelpAge International, 2011
- Social pensions are a vehicle for reducing the poverty of the population as a whole. This paper reviews the cost of universal pensions, suggesting that the cost of universal pensions in developing countries today is affordable. ...
- Are social protection management information systems only software and hardware?
- R. Chirchir; S. Kidd / HelpAge International, 2011
- Management information systems (MISs) are core to the design of social protection schemes. This working paper examines good practice in the design of MISs for social protection. The paper argues that discussions on the design and impl...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- 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.
