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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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  Development cooperation for social safety nets in East and Southeast Asia

  Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2009

  Although East and Southeast Asia countries are commonly considered to be success stories in growth, they have yet to eradiate poverty and vulnerability. These problems have been exacerbated by the twin processes of globalisation and demographic transition, both of which have had negative social effects.
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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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  What the Cuban revolution means to older Cubans

  Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 2009

  This paper discusses what the Cuban Revolution means to older Cubans and how it has changed their lives.
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  Policy responses to the global financial crisis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009

  This document comprises of a set of briefs which discuss policy responses to the financial crisis. They came out of rapid research projects from the UK Institute of Development Studies for publication to coincide with the London G20 summit in April 2009. The ten short papers are outlined below:
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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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  Impact is not enough: image and CCT sustainability in Nicaragua

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009

  Among the many conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) implemented in Latin America recently, Nicaragua’s Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) initiative, started in 2002, is widely considered to have been particularly successful. Unexpectedly, though, the programme was closed down in 2006.
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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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