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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- 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...
- 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 represe...
- How can Asian economies prepare for their ageing populations?
- ( S.-H. Lee;A. Mason;D. Park / Asian Development Bank , 2011)
- Asia faces the challenge of population ageing. Youthful populations that contributed substantially to growth in the past are maturing and countries that currently have relatively youthful populations ...
- Circular migration - who benefits the most?
- ( P. Wickramasekara / Global Union Research Network , 2011)
- ‘Circular migration’ has recently been promoted as a triple win solution, bringing benefits to destination countries, origin countries and migrant workers themselves, thus projecting it as...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- ( P.S. Ward;G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participat...
- Causality between money and income in Bangladesh
- ( M. Hossain / Bangladesh Online Research Network , 2011)
- The causal relationship between money and income remains a contentious and lively issue in the literature. Even though the literature on this issue is voluminous, however, for Bangladesh it is quite n...
- Adopting technologies for irrigated rice in Tanzania needs access to credit
- ( Y. Nakano;K. Kajisa / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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The imbalance between domestic production of rice and rice consumption has been growing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nevertheless, one possible strategy for achieving productivity improvement is to...
- 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)
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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 ... - 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)
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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 accou...
- 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)
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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 ...
