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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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  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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  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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  The Latin American experience in pension system reform: coverage, fiscal issues and possible implications for China

  Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009

  The pension reform experience of the Latin American countries in the past two decades shows that the intended reforms did not manage to meet their objectives. Countries undertook structural pension reforms focused mainly on addressing the weaknesses of the contributory schemes, but barely addressing the non-contributory element.
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  Reforming the tax system in Korea to promote economic growth and cope with rapid population ageing

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  Korea has one of the lowest tax burdens in the OECD area, reflecting its small public sector.However, it is likely to continue rising with rapid population ageing and the development of a social safety net which will put upward pressure on government spending.

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