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    Seguro Popular in Mexico: is premature evaluation healthy?

    The Lancet, 2009
    This article, published in The Lancet, presents an innovative cluster-randomised trial of health insurance, Seguro Popular, in Mexico. Similar to all large-scale effectiveness evaluations, the authors acknowledge that this study has limitations. For instance, the short implementation period could have precluded the identification of an effect on outcomes that are unlikely to change rapidly.
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    Economic implications and sustainability of micropensions in the era of pension reforms in India

    International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
    The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme.  It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management by competing private fund managers and portability through centralised record keeping and administration.
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    Pension systems for the informal sector in Asia

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2009
    The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age.
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    The impact of drought on household vulnerability: the case of rural Malawi

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2008
    Vulnerability to poverty in Malawi is highly associated with risk. Households face multiple shocks, most of which threaten their livelihoods and impact negatively on their welfare. Among the important risks that rural households face is drought, which is exacerbated by environmental change.
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    Do rural households smooth their consumption? Applying an asset-based approach to the case of Malawi

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
    Smallholder farming households in most of the developing countries, live in environments that are characterised by substantial risk. They consequently develop a range of risk management strategies. However, analysing household consumption smoothing behaviour requires the availability of both income and consumption data.
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    Improving food security in Arab countries

    World Bank Publications, 2009
    Arab countries are more exposed than other countries to severe swings in agricultural commodity prices due to the high level of food imports, especially cereals, and continued population growth and urbanisation. Countries need to act urgently to improve food security.
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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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    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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    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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