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China's long march to retirement reform: the graying of the Middle Kingdom revisited
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009China’s working-age population will shrink as its elderly population explodes. Unless China prepares for the challenge, a retirement crisis of immense proportions looms just over the horizon.DocumentPension schemes for the self-employed in OECD countries
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009The 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.DocumentHow to make European pensions adequate and sustainable?
Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2009While 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.DocumentDevelopment cooperation for social safety nets in East and Southeast Asia
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2009Although 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.DocumentPension reform in Chile revisited: what has been learned?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009This 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.DocumentEnabling conditions for second pillars of pension systems
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2009Over the past decade the World Bank has promoted pension reforms entailing the introduction of multi-pillar pension systems. Multi-pillar pension reforms typically included the introduction of a second pillar, in which mandatory savings are accumulated in individual accounts.DocumentHow to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design
Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics, 2009Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole.DocumentWhat the Cuban revolution means to older Cubans
Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 2009This paper discusses what the Cuban Revolution means to older Cubans and how it has changed their lives.DocumentLatin America’s aging challenge: demographics and retirement policy in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009Latin 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.DocumentAging in Asia: trends, impacts and responses
Asian Development Bank, 2009Within 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.Pages