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  China's long march to retirement reform: the graying of the Middle Kingdom revisited

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009

  China’s working-age population will shrink as its elderly population explodes. Unless China prepares for the challenge, a retirement crisis of immense proportions looms just over the horizon.
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  Policy responses to the global financial crisis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009

  This document comprises of a set of briefs which discuss policy responses to the financial crisis. They came out of rapid research projects from the UK Institute of Development Studies for publication to coincide with the London G20 summit in April 2009. The ten short papers are outlined below:
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  Aging in Asia: trends, impacts and responses

  Asian Development Bank, 2009

  Within the next few decades, Asia is poised to become the oldest region in the world; reforming policies and creating new structures and institutions to address this challenge is a huge and complex undertaking that requires a big head-start.
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  The Latin American experience in pension system reform: coverage, fiscal issues and possible implications for China

  Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009

  The pension reform experience of the Latin American countries in the past two decades shows that the intended reforms did not manage to meet their objectives. Countries undertook structural pension reforms focused mainly on addressing the weaknesses of the contributory schemes, but barely addressing the non-contributory element.
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  Pension provision: government failure around the world

  Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009

  This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that widespread difficulties with state pension schemes make it surprising that there is not more favourable acceptance of private provision for income in old age.
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  Public investment and poverty reduction: lessons from China and India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007

  This article argues that public investments in rural areas have contributed significantly to agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in China and India.
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  Extending social assistance in China: lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006

  This report details China's urban Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS). This is a social assistance programme initially focused on the chronically poor, but later extended to the long-term unemployed.
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  Influence of social institutions on inequality in China

  Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005

  This study analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China.
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  Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.

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