Domestic finance
- 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 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...
- 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...
- The example of a universal social pension in Zanzibar could become a model for other countries in East Africa
- ( A. Pearson / HelpAge International , 2009)
- Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors. But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash ...
Does informal work lead to formal employment in Egypt?
- ( J. Wahba / Economic Research Forum, Egypt , 2009)
- In the last few decades, the informal sector has played a major role in many of the Least Developed Countries’ labour markets. This is partly because employment in the informal economy tends to ...
- Will continuing scientific advances boost overall health care spending?
- ( H.J. Aaron / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College , 2009)
- Many studies argue that projections of health care spending should be based on the assumption that age-specific health care spending should be assumed to decline because of reductions in age-specific ...
- Increasing Guaranteed Income Supplement - an ideal way to stimulate the economy
- ( M. Townson / Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives , 2009)
- This paper sets out some of the problems with Canada's pension system and outlines some of the options that have been proposed to deal with them. ...
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