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  Social security system in India: an international comparative analysis

  Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010

  In India the lack of a wide social security net has serious implications for well-being of aged, poor people who are unable to meet their old age needs. India’s workforce is largely based in unorganised sector where pension provisions are mainly of a  voluntary nature. The size of this sector is a bottleneck in social security provision to the elderly poor in India.
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  The Impact Tool box: a tool box for impact monitoring and evaluation of savings and credit programme

  NGO Impact on Development, Empowerment and Actions, 2007

  The NGO-IDEAS impact tool box was developed to support NGOs working in the area of savings and credit, in the context of South India. The approach is based on some principles that can applied in other contexts.
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  The time to lead is now: the adoption of ESG analysis by Asian government pension funds

  The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009

  Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify.
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  Australia South Asia Research Centre

  Centre dedicated to research on the economics and politics of development in the South Asia region:  India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
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  Private saving in India and Malaysia compared: the role of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits

  Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009

  This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the ‘forced saving’ nature of the pension systems in India and Malaysia had any effect on voluntary saving by the private sector.
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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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  A status report on India’s financial system: a view from the standpoint of intermediation and risk bearing

  Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, 2006

  This paper analyzes and discusses the impact of financial reform and related institutional change on the process of financial intermediation. The authors argue that from within the confines of the goals it had set itself, India’s financial reforms have been a success because after the reforms:
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  The social pension in India: a participatory study on poverty reduction impact and role of monitoring groups

  HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009

  Poor older people in India have had the benefit of a means-tested social pension for over 10 years. Selection of beneficiaries is a responsibility of local government, and there are reports that the scheme does not always benefit the intended recipients.
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  Pension coverage and informal sector workers: international experiences

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing countries.

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