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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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    Social security reforms in Colombia: striking demographic and fiscal balances

    International Monetary Fund, 2009
    Colombia established pension benefits in 1967, through the creation of the public Pay-as-You-Go System (PAYGO). However, this system quickly dissolved into a crisis as a result of low participation rates.
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    Development cooperation for social safety nets in East and Southeast Asia

    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2009
    Countries in East and Southeast Asia are currently undergoing unprecedented double shocks: globalisation and demographic transition. This paper attempts to highlight the nature and magnitude of the impact of these shocks, and discuss policy needs, challenges, and issues in the provision of social safety nets in the region.
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    Pension reform in Southeastern Europe: linking to labor and financial market reforms

    World Bank, 2009
    The papers and country statements in this volume are revised and updated versions of papers prepared for the conference “International Forum on Pension Reform: Exploring the Link to Labor and Financial Market Reforms,” held in Bled, Slovenia, June 2007.This volume has three main parts:
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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, 2009
    China’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.
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    Pension schemes for the self-employed in OECD countries

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    The 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.
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    How to make European pensions adequate and sustainable?

    Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2009
    While 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.
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    Pension reform in Chile revisited: what has been learned?

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    This 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.
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    Policy responses to the global financial crisis

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This document comprises of a set of briefs which discuss policy responses to the financial crisis. They came out of rapid research projects from the UK Institute of Development Studies for publication to coincide with the London G20 summit in April 2009. The ten short papers are outlined below:
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    Latin America’s aging challenge: demographics and retirement policy in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

    Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009
    Latin 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.

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