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    Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2010
    Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension systems in the developing world.
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    National retirement savings systems in Australia, Chile,New Zealand and the United Kingdom: lessons for the United States

    Retirement Security Project, Brookings, 2010
    Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it will spend more in benefits than it will receive in payroll and other taxes.
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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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    Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru

    Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2010
    Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old defined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP).  However, members of the SPP (those who previously belonged to the SNP) realised that the expected or already received benefits in the SPP were lower than those in the SNP.  In order to correct this effects, there have been many costly adjustments
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    World population ageing 2009

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2009
    This report provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and countries.
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    Pensions in crisis: Europe and Central Asia regional policy note

    World Bank, 2010
    The financial crisis has had significant impacts on pension systems in the Europe and Central Asia region (ECA),  tempting governments to make policy changes in response to the increased pension deficits they are facing.
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    Urban public pension, replacement rates and population growth rate in China

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
    This paper investigates the urban public pension in China, and examines the effects of the replacement rates and population growth rate on the capital-labour ratio, pension benefits, consumption and utility. Furthermore, it figures out the optimal replacement rate.
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.
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    Social panorama of Latin America 2009

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
    This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different states of the region vary in their preparedness to protect at-risk groups in an economic downturn. The paper underlines these findings:
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    Social protection policy: responses to older people’s needs in Zanzibar

    HelpAge International, 2009
    Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors.  But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing family structures, migration and general poverty have eroded traditional patterns of support, and even where support exists, it is normally inadequate.

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