- Are pensions that benefit the vast majority of older people more sustainable than safety nets?
- S. Kidd; E. Whitehouse / Development Pathways, 2009
- In principle, pension policy can provide security for older people who are in danger of falling into poverty. This paper argues that if the international community is serious about tackling old- age poverty, a social pension is the be...
- Private Foundations, Business and Developing a Post-2015 Framework
- N. Watson 2012
- Businesses operating in developing countries should use their influence to strengthen national government systems, rather than bypassing them if progress is to be made on global poverty reduction. Businesses should use their influence...
- World economic and social survey 2012: in search of new development finance
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division, 2012
- The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) 2012 focuses on innovative ways to finance sustainable development. It notes that while the need for aid remains high, many donors have cut back on development assistance due to difficult fi...
- Study on ICT based financial inclusion through BC-Impediments and Corrective Actions
- L. M. Ganesan 2011
- The objectives of the study were to identify the field level problems and make suggestions for resolving these problems so that financial inclusion could be expedited and completed in a time bound manner, thus paving the way for the r...
- Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion: The Regulatory Lessons
- M. Klein / World Bank, 2011
- Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for con...
- Access to finance for SMEs: a global agenda
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, 2012
- This paper presents the ACCA Global Forum for SMEs’ recommendations for the development of a visible and consistent global agenda on SME access to finance. It calls for intergovernmental organisations to develop and support a con...
- Utilising the geographic position of landlocked developing countries as a stimulus to develop compensating mechanisms
- M. Fujita / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2003
- Thirty countries are currently designated by the United Nations as landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), and the Millennium Declaration called for a global partnership to address the special needs of these countries. This study foc...
- Why The IMF And The International Monetary System Need More Than Cosmetic Reform | South Centre
- South Centre, 2010
- This South Centre report argues that the G20 agenda misses some of the key issues that need to be dealt with in order to effectively reform the international monetary system so as to avert future global financial crises. The missing i...
- The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement
- A Meng 2010
- An analysis of the determinants of care provision, looking at informal care, professional home-based care and formal nursing care.
- The future of the public sector pensions: final report
- Pension Policy Institute, UK, 2010
- This report on the future of the public sector pension schemes identifies policy objectives that any Government considering further reforms to the public sector pensions might aim to address, identifies a set of possible further refor...
- Unravelling the impact of the global financial crisis on the South African labour market
- S. Verick / International Labour Organization, 2010
- South Africa, Africa’s largest economy, fell into recession half way through 2008, with job losses numbering almost 900,000. Real GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009 suggested that the South African economy was exiting recess...
- An envisaged economic model for new Libya: "oil-reliance" or inclusive development?
- R. Chami; A. Al-Darwish; S. Cevik / International Monetary Fund, 2012
- The conflict in Libya in 2011 had a severe impact on the economy, but the contraction is expected to be temporary. This paper demonstrates that Libya has the potential for a robust diverse and inclusive growth. The paper h...
- Access to Finance Toolkit for R&D ICT Innovations and early stage ICT SMEs
- 2012
- This toolkit is targeted at R&D Innovations or SMEs in the ICT sector that have participated in the European Commission Framework Programmes (under relevant ICT strands) who are seeking sources of external funding to commercialise...
- Business as Usual - How Free Trade Agreements Jeopardise Financial Sector Reform
- M. Vander Stichele / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2010
- In contrast with the current wide-ranging financial reform agenda in the European Union (EU), the EU continues to liberalise a wide range of risky and non-risky financial services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) a...
- Civil Service and Military Pension Reforms in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
- M. G. Asher 2011
- The 2008 Global Crisis and demographic trends in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore has increased the urgency of reforming their pension systems for enhancing financial, fiscal, and economic sustainability over a long period, and miti...
- Simulations of long-term returns and replacement rates in the Colombian pension system
- J. Alonso / BBVA Research, 2010
- This study is a theoretical exercise for Colombia that aims to simulate a variety of scenarios under a hypothetical scheme similar to the pension multi-funds currently in operation in Chile, Mexico and Peru.
- The Demographic Dividend: Evidence from the Indian States
- S. Aiyar / International Monetary Fund, 2011
- Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. T...
- State of the Bangladesh Economy inFY2010‐11 (First Reading)
- Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2011
- Macroeconomic management in FY2010-11 thus had to confront the twin tasks of (i) accelerating the GDP growth by energising domestic investment and responding to the lagged impact of the global financial crisis with its demonstrated ad...
- Improving the assessment of disaster risks to strengthen financial resilience: a special joint G20 publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank
- World Bank, 2012
- This publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank brings together the experiences of G20 countries in protecting their populations and assets against natural hazards. It includes contributions by G20 members and invited ...
- Case study: the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF)
- C. Grüning / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
- The Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) is designed as a National Climate (Trust) Fund (NCF), which aims to develop innovative ways to link international finance sources with national investment strategies. In general, nationa...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- 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...
