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Longevity in Russia’s regions: do poverty and low public health spending kill?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model is used as a tool for the empirical analysis. The model is estimated using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimator.DocumentPost offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.DocumentThere is more to a decent income in lengthening old age than individual savings: a discussion of income security for old age in Singapore and Malaysia
International Social Security Association, 2003This paper compares the approaches to income provision for old age taken by both Singapore and Malaysia.Findings:individual savings alone do not represent the best option for income security into old ageincreased access to savings prior to retirement, through dedicated accounts and specified schemes, lessens the ability of provident funds to meet their primary objective, namely secuDocumentModernization of the Bulgarian retirement policy: analytical review of the recent changes and prospects
Club 'Economika 2000', Bulgaria, 2002Why and how has the pension system been modernised in Bulgaria? This paper considers how economic, social and political needs for modernising pension policy and for reforming the pension system in Bulgaria was pronounced at the beginning of the 1990s.DocumentSocial security for the unorganized in India: an approach paper
Eldis Document Store, 2002This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise. On the contrary, voluntary retirement schemes, out sourcing employment and casualization have become the key words of the corporate world these days.DocumentA generation in transition: older people’s situation and civil society’s response in East and Central Europe
HelpAge International, 2002Document drawing on HelpAge International’s experience of engagement with the East and Central European Network (ECEN) of civil society organisations working with and for older people.It aims to provide decision-makers within government, local and national civil society organisations, regional agencies and older people themselves with the following: a snapshot of the real issues, as ideDocumentActual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis
Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.DocumentSocial Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare
Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998Overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-by-programme review of their welfare states (presented in annex). Private welfare is introduced in the analysis in two ways.