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    Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)

    New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change.
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    DC - reality bites: the impact of the financial crisis on DC pension provision

    Towers Watson, 2009
    The current financial crisis has been a wake-up call for employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) pension schemes.
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    Social security reforms in Colombia: striking demographic and fiscal balances

    International Monetary Fund, 2009
    Colombia established pension benefits in 1967, through the creation of the public Pay-as-You-Go System (PAYGO). However, this system quickly dissolved into a crisis as a result of low participation rates.
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    Private pensions and policy responses to the financial and economic crisis

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    The current financial crisis has had a major impact on global pension assets, with the OECD estimating declines of over 20% at the end of 2008. This is putting pressure on funding levels for defined benefit pension plans, and has served a severe blow to members of defined contribution (DC) plans close to retirement, denting confidence in many DC systems.
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    Development cooperation for social safety nets in East and Southeast Asia

    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2009
    Countries in East and Southeast Asia are currently undergoing unprecedented double shocks: globalisation and demographic transition. This paper attempts to highlight the nature and magnitude of the impact of these shocks, and discuss policy needs, challenges, and issues in the provision of social safety nets in the region.
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    Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS

    The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield.
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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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    Decent work for older persons in Thailand

    International Labour Organization, 2009
    This paper highlights the current and emerging issues concerning the promotion of decent work for older persons in Thailand, including the aspects of employment, income security, social security, government policies, as well as private sector and civil society initiatives.
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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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