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    KiwiSaver: New Zealand’s new subsidized retirement savings plans

    Social Security Online, 2007
    Since 2007 New Zealanders have had a new option for their retirement savings, KiwiSaver, a type of subsidised, defined contribution retirement savings plan offered by private-sector providers.
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    Financial literacy: an essential tool for informed consumer choice?

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2008
    Over the past thirty years, individuals have had to become increasingly responsible for their own financial security following retirement. The shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans has meant that workers today have to decide both how much they need to save for retirement and how to allocate pension wealth.
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    The housing crash and the retirement prospects of late baby boomers

    Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2008
    Traditionally, Americans envisioned workers’ income in retirement as a three-legged stool involving Social Security, a defined benefit pension and personal savings. In the last two decades, the share of the workforce with defined benefit pensions has fallen sharply so that this no longer is a substantial component of retirement income for most workers.
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    Reforming retirement-income systems: lessons from the recent experiences of OECD countries

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pension spending is set to increase significantly over the coming decades in response to population ageing.
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    Understanding responses to pension forecasts: qualitative research

    UK Government Department for Work and Pensions, 2008
    This report is the result of a project commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which aimed to enrich understanding of people’s responses to pension forecasts.
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    Social security in other countries: worldwide social security agencies

    Social Security Online, 2008
    Directory of websites of social security agencies and organisations around the world. Compiled by Social Security Online (USA).
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    Reform of retirement provisions: feasibility studies

    Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa, 2008
    The government of South Africa is undertaking retirement reform initiatives to establish a comprehensive social security system. The potential components of the system are a universal noncontributory system (or social assistance), a mandatory contributory system and regulatory oversight of additional voluntary arrangements.
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    Understanding poverty among the elderly in India: implications for social pension policy

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Cash transfers to the poor elderly as social pensions are one of the most important anti-poverty programmes operating in India today. In 2007, the Government of India announced that changes to eligibility rules would increase the number of beneficiaries from an estimated 8.7 to almost 16 million people or roughly one in five elderly Indians.
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    Credit cards and older Americans

    House Financial Services Committee (U.S Government), 2007
    This is a transcript of a U.S. House of Representatives hearing that focused on credit card issues facing older consumers, causing rising levels of personal debt, especially among fixed-income older Americans. The hearing also looked at options older consumers have when trying to reduce credit card debt and the special challenges that they face in this effort.
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    Disability insurance with pre-funding and private participation: the Chilean model

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2008
    Social security systems in many countries face problems of high and escalating disability costs. The disability insurance system in Chile is less well-known than the old age pension system, but it is equally innovative.

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