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    Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

    HelpAge International, 2008
    The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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    Reforming pensions

    CESifo, 2009
    The primary cause of the pensions ‘crisis’ in many countries, this paper argues, is a failure to adapt to very long-run trends: increasing life expectancy (with exceptions), declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Superimposed are two more recent phenomena: the baby boom (widespread, though not universal) and the general increase in the scale of pension systems.
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    The 2008 Chilean reform to first-pillar pensions

    CESifo, 2009
    The Chilean Congress approved in January 2008 the replacement of her two current non-contributory subsidies for the old poor (“first pillar”) with a unified program with a pioneering design. This paper describes the policy process and evaluates the new design. The first finding is that reform was not driven by poverty among the old.
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    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.
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    Pension provision: government failure around the world

    Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
    This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that widespread difficulties with state pension schemes make it surprising that there is not more favourable acceptance of private provision for income in old age.
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    Can 401(k) plans provide adequate retirement resources?

    Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
    Despite only having been in existence for 27 years – less than a typical working career – some analysts seem to have concluded that 401(k) plans are a failure.
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    Investing for the old age: pensions, children and savings

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2009
    In the last century most countries have experienced both an increase in pension spending and a decline in fertility. This paper argues that the interplay of pension generosity and development of capital markets is crucial to understand fertility decisions.
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    The financial crisis and mandatory pension systems in developing countries: short- and medium-term responses for retirement income systems

    Pensions Online, World Bank, 2008
    The international financial crisis has severely affected the value of pension fund assets worldwide. The unfolding global recession will also impose pressures on public pension schemes financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, while limiting the capacity of governments to mitigate both of these effects.
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    Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

    The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases.
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    Pension markets in focus, December 2008

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    This feature discusses the impacts of the current financial crisis on private pension regimes. It points out that private pension schemes in the OECD area have lost nearly 20% of their assets between January and October 2008.In defined benefit plans:

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