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    Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform

    CESifo, 2009
    Pension reform is nowadays in the forefront of the political agenda of many European countries. Using ireland as an example country, this paper analyses the different forces that can affect people’s evaluation of the state pension system. The main focus of the paper is to answer the following questions:
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    Brazil’s rural pension system, its development and impacts: lessons for China

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2009
    Like Brazil in the 1960s, China is now facing problems of large geographical inequalities, as well high rates of rural to urban migration of younger aged adults. However, rural older people account for a much higher share of China‟s total population than in Brazil. This both increases the urgency for universal pension provision and increases the economic cost of doing so.
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    An aging world: 2008

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2009
    Population ageing has emerged as a major demographic worldwide trend. On the one hand the reality of global ageing and increased longevity represents a triumph of medical, social, and economic advances. But on the other, population ageing has created significant challenges to health care systems, and existing models of social support, pensions and insurance.
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    Building a society for all ages

    Building a society for all ages, UK Government, 2009
    UK Government strategy paper to designed to help Britain prepare for our ageing society. The paper highlights the need for a cultural shift, to build a vision of a society for all ages – where people are not defined by their age, and prejudice does not prevent harnessing the skills and experience of the older population.
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    Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Poverty and disability among Indian elderly: evidence from household survey

    Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
    In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled.  Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age.  Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent of the elderly live below the poverty line and 90 percent are neither covered by any state pension nor have any family to take care of them.
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    Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high priced funerals in South Africa

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
    In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral.  Loans might be taken out with money  lenders, if need be, in order to have a funeral that befits the status of the household and of the person who has died.
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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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