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    Poverty reduction and non-contributory old age pension programme in the Roma Valley: evidence from logistic probability model

    African Econometric Society, 2007
    In November 2004, the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho introduced an non-contributory old age pension scheme, in keeping with one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of poverty alleviation by the year 2015 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing which calls for the involvement of the elderly in development strategies.  This paper is an effort to investigate the impact
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    The economic and social impacts of the old age pension on the protection of the Basotho elderly and their households

    University of Pretoria, 2008
    This paper presents the preliminary findings from survey research done between 2005 and 2007 of how the availability of a universal old age pension since November 2004 has affected the economic and social well-being of its elderly recipients in Lesotho.
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    African Econometric Society (AES)

    The African Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics.
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    Flagship or flagging? The impact of Pension Credit five years on

    Age UK, 2008
    In August 2003 there were 1.8 million pensioners in the UK receiving Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG – Income Support for Pensioners).
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    National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra (NATSEM)

    NATSEM is a research centre associated with the University of Canberra that undertakes research and analysis specialising in the use of microdata and microsimulation modelling to address ongoing and e
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    Old, single and poor: using microsimulation and microdata to analyse poverty and the impact of policy change among older Australians

    National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008
    In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about the adequacy of the old age pension to provide an acceptable standard of living. Projected increases in the number of age pension recipients in the future, as well as concerns about the current wellbeing of age pensioners, particularly in light of increasing costs of living, has prompted debate about the current level of payments.
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    The housing bubble and retirement security

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2008
    House prices rose 60 percent between 2000 and 2007 before the housing bubble burst in the United States. Has the housing boom made people better or worse prepared for retirement?This brief explores how the rise in house prices affected individual households. It:
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    Distributional analysis of pension and social security reforms: alternative approaches and a report on an expert panel meeting

    Urban Institute, USA, 2008
    As the US Social Security system faces demographic challenges, distributional analysis will play an important role in designing policies which ensure its fiscal solvency. Most notably, policy makers will be concerned about the distribution of the gains and losses of potential policy reforms.
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    New frontiers of research on retirement

    2008
    Corporate and community leaders and researchers will be giving increasing attention to the question of what adjustments will be needed as a consequence of the wave of retirements in the years ahead. This book has been designed to contribute to the basic information that Canadian leaders and researchers will need when they begin to devote much more time and resources to these adjustments.
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    Pension fund performance

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    This study, by the OECD in collaboration with the World Bank and some private sector institutions, aims to compare investment performance of privately managed pension funds across several OECD, Latin American and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.

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