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    Ageing in the Caribbean: exploring some major concerns for family and society

    Global Action on Aging, 2010
    At the start of the 21st century, the Caribbean population of older persons - those 60 years and older - was larger than ever before in the history of the region.
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    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,
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    The Impact of the global economic crisis on the Pacific region

    Oxfam Australia, 2010
    Whilst at a macroeconomic level, the Global Economic Crisis (GEC) has had less impact on many Pacific countries than on most other developing countries, impacts from the GEC are ongoing and vary greatly across Pacific countries.
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    Work histories and pension entitlements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2010
    This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access pensions are apparently unattainable for large segments of the population, at least under the labour market conditions that have prevailed in the region.
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    Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2010
    Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension systems in the developing world.
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    National retirement savings systems in Australia, Chile,New Zealand and the United Kingdom: lessons for the United States

    Retirement Security Project, Brookings, 2010
    Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it will spend more in benefits than it will receive in payroll and other taxes.
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    Retirement Security Project, Brookings

    The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers.
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    Social security system in India: an international comparative analysis

    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 unorganised sector where pension provisions are mainly of a  voluntary nature. The size of this sector is a bottleneck in social security provision to the elderly poor in India.
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    Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru

    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 belonged to the SNP) realised that the expected or already received benefits in the SPP were lower than those in the SNP.  In order to correct this effects, there have been many costly adjustments
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    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 social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.

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