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    The rise of Africa's "frontier markets"

    Finance and Development, IMF, 2008
    This article discusses African countries and the second generation of “emerging market” countries. It likens attraction from institutional investors to Africa to that in emerging markets in the 1980s. However, markets are more integrated today and investors are immersed in a wide range of financial activities and using complex technologies.
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    Follow the money: a resource book for trainers on public expenditure tracking in Tanzania

    Hakikazi Catalyst, Tanzania, 2008
    Public Expenditure Tracking (PET) is ‘following the money’ from where it is disbursed by central government authorities, through local government, to end users such as schools and clinics. This manual provides tools for the implementation of public expenditure tracking systems (PETS) in the context of Tanzania. [adapted from the authors]
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    Street trade in Africa: a review

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This paper aims to outline broad trends relating to street trade in Africa. It also hopes to assess what is known about this phenomenon in the continent and how it has been understood over time, with a view to assist in framing future research.
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    Macroeconomic effects of pension reform in Russia

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2008
    Russia’s ageing problem is further aggravated by the fact that its population is rapidly shrinking, at an expected rate of about 0.5 percent per year until 2050. This implies a decline in contributions to the pension system, while payouts will increase. The existing pension system is ill-prepared for this challenge.
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    Voluntary enrolment in the Peruvian private pension system

    Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe, 2008
    Peru reformed its pension system in 1993 and similar to many other Latin American countries, the affiliation to any pension system (public or private) is mandatory for all formal salaried workers and voluntary for informal workers.
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    Aging, poverty, and social pension in Vietnam

    National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008
    In Vietnam, a social pension scheme was implemented in 2004 to provide a monthly benefit to the elderly aged 90 and over who did not have a contributory pension. In April 2007, the eligible age was revised to 85 and over. Impacts of the current scheme have been limited in terms of both coverage and poverty reduction.
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    Global macroeconomic developments and poverty

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    The second half of the nineties marked a revival in the international community’s interest in the relationship between macroeconomic policy and poverty in low income countries.
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    Demographic changes and pension finances in Vietnam

    National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008
    This paper aims to provide a long-term financial vision for the Vietnamese pension scheme using stochastic modelling for key variables under an actuarial framework. In particular, it projects the pension fund balances in order to determine whether the scheme will be financially sustainable.
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    The rising age at retirement in industrial countries

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2008
    This paper examines recent trends in retirement behaviour in 21 rich countries. It proposes three measures of labour-force exit, and estimates labour-force exit rates using a variety of labour supply indicators, including the labour-force participation rate, the employment rate, average work hours in the population, and average weekly earnings in the population.
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    The new rural social pension insurance programme of Baoji City

    HelpAge International, 2008
    Baoji City is located in western Shaanxi, and is the second largest city in the province after Xi’an. It has a population of 3.76 million, 74 per cent of whom live in rural areas. The Baoji government instituted the New Rural Social Pension Insurance Programme in July 2007, one of the first of its kind in China.Insurance subscribers fall under three categories:

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