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    Pension reform in Southeastern Europe: linking to labor and financial market reforms

    World Bank, 2009
    The papers and country statements in this volume are revised and updated versions of papers prepared for the conference “International Forum on Pension Reform: Exploring the Link to Labor and Financial Market Reforms,” held in Bled, Slovenia, June 2007.This volume has three main parts:
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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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    Pension schemes for the self-employed in OECD countries

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    The self-employed workers make up a small but significant minority of the workforce in many OECD countries. Moreover, transitions into and out of self-employment have become much more common for a larger group of workers. It is therefore of critical importance to review and assess the pension schemes available to self-employed workers across OECD countries.
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    How to make European pensions adequate and sustainable?

    Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2009
    While social policy continues to be very much under the control of the individual member states, the EU dimension is increasingly important. Some regulation of pension investment is provided under the common market principle. Also, some aspects of the portability of pension rights are dealt with at the EU level.
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    Pension reform in Chile revisited: what has been learned?

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    This paper describes Chile’s pension reform of 1980, which replaced the existing pay-as-you-go public pension programmes by a new funded pension programme managed by private companies (the “AFPs”). It comments on the main results of this reform so far, and identifies the current challenges faced by the country’s pension system.
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    Enabling conditions for second pillars of pension systems

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2009
    Over the past decade the World Bank has promoted pension reforms entailing the introduction of multi-pillar pension systems. Multi-pillar pension reforms typically included the introduction of a second pillar, in which mandatory savings are accumulated in individual accounts.
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    How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design

    Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics, 2009
    Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole.
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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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    Latin America’s aging challenge: demographics and retirement policy in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009
    Latin America’s population aged 65 or over will triple to 18.5 percent by 2050. Fertility is declining. The coming age wave poses two fundamental challenges for Latin America. The first is to fashion national retirement systems capable of providing an adequate level of support for the old without imposing a crushing burden on the young.
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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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