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- Which way for new central banks in sub-Saharan Africa?
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The Bank of Ghana is the second central bank in sub-Saharan Africa. It has adopted an inflation-targeting regime of questionable relevance in the current global climate. Rising food and oil prices are likely to slow growth in Ghana and exchange rate management might be best for dealing with this.
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How eligibility rules affect access to pensions In Latin America
- ( A. Forteza;I. Apella;E. Fajnzylber / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank , 2010)
- This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access...
- How increasing old-age pension provision impacts on retirement decisions in a poor country
- ( A.M. Danzer / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2010)
- Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension syste...
- How to build more a sustainable more sustainable pension for future generations
- ( D.C. John;R. Levine / Retirement Security Project, Brookings , 2010)
- Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it w...
- How the Indian pension system falls behind the OECD benchmark
- ( R.K. Jha;S. Bhattacharyya / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2010)
- In India the lack of a wide social security net has serious implications for well-being of aged, poor people who are unable to meet their old age needs. India’s workforce is largely based in uno...
- How to create a multi-pillar pension system in Peru
- ( J. Olivera / Society for the Study of Economic Inequality , 2010)
- Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old defined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP). However, members of the SPP (those who previously be...
- How to make fiscal policy in Chile more counter-cyclical
- ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2010)
- This policy brief presents the assessment and recommendations of the 2010 OECD Economic Survey of Chile. The paper notes that the global economic recession hit Chile both through a sharp deterioration...
- The proportion of older persons in the world will double by 2050
- ( Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations , 2009)
- This report provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and countries. This edit...
- The financial crisis and pensions - the real crisis is yet to come
- ( World Bank , 2010)
- The financial crisis has had significant impacts on pension systems in the Europe and Central Asia region (ECA), tempting governments to make policy changes in response to the increased pension ...
- Pension policy and how to restrain the over-fast growth of capital assets investment in China
- ( Z. Yang / Munich Personal RePEc Archive , 2009)
- This paper investigates the urban public pension in China, and examines the effects of the replacement rates and population growth rate on the capital-labour ratio, pension benefits, consumption and u...
- A simple and cost-effective pension system in that could be scaled up to national level
- ( C. Knox / HelpAge International , 2009)
- The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national so...
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