Domestic finance
- 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 will also experience substantial g...
- 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 a major mechanism to reap develop...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- P.S. Ward; G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search, 2011
- 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 participation as responses to risk in rural Chi...
- 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 nascent. A few earlier studies suff...
- Adopting technologies for irrigated rice in Tanzania needs access to credit
- Y. Nakano; K. Kajisa / AgEcon Search, 2011
- 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 seek an Asian-style rice Green Revol...
- 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...
- Does the Ugandan monetary framework need more radical modifications?
- C. Adam / AgEcon Search, 2009
- Observers state that recent modifications to the Bank of Uganda’s operating procedures have very significantly improved the conduct of monetary policy. This paper discusses aspects of the conduct of monetary policy in Uganda. Th...
- 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 will also experience substantial g...
- 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 a major mechanism to reap develop...
- Risks threatening Chinese households decrease participation in migration
- P.S. Ward; G.E. Shively / AgEcon Search, 2011
- 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 participation as responses to risk in rural Chi...
- 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 nascent. A few earlier studies suff...
- Adopting technologies for irrigated rice in Tanzania needs access to credit
- Y. Nakano; K. Kajisa / AgEcon Search, 2011
- 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 seek an Asian-style rice Green Revol...
- 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...
- Does the Ugandan monetary framework need more radical modifications?
- C. Adam / AgEcon Search, 2009
- Observers state that recent modifications to the Bank of Uganda’s operating procedures have very significantly improved the conduct of monetary policy. This paper discusses aspects of the conduct of monetary policy in Uganda. Th...
- 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...
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Organisation collecting data on the people and economy of the United States. Data includes: Population & Housing Census - every 10 years Economic Census - every 5 years American Communtity Survey - annually Other demographic & economic surveys Economic Indicators - each indicator is released on a specific...
- 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...
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
