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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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    Impact of old age allowance on health-related quality of life among elderly persons in Bangladesh

    Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
    This study examines the impact of small-scale old age allowance, initiated by the government of Bangladesh in 1998, on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of elderly persons. Beneficiaries have been increased from 0.5 million in 1998 to 1.6 million in 2006, and this is a cross-sectional study conducted in 10 of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.
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    Pension reform and old age grants in South Africa

    University of Pretoria, 2007
    The absence of a mandatory tier of the South African contributory system makes it unique from an international perspective. Furthermore, the absence of any form of state provision (or delivery) of an earnings-related retirement system is unusual.
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    The private affairs of public pensions in South Africa: debt, development and corporatization

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2009
    Toward the end of its rule, the apartheid government in South Africa converted its contributory pension system for employees in the public sector from one that effectively functioned as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) scheme to a fully funded scheme.

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