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    Micro-pensions in India: critical issues, challenges and strategies for future

    WorldGranny, 2007
    This paper discusses micro-pensions in India with a particular focus on the critical issues, and the current challenges and strategies. It also looks at the role that Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs) play in micro-pensions.
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    Generations of struggle

    American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008
    Using data collected from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP), this paper analyses the age distribution of bankruptcy filers over the past 16 years in America. It aims to describe changes in the age of demographics of those filing for consumer bankruptcy.
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    Europe's coming demographic challenge: unlocking the value of health

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
    This paper looks at the effects of demographic issues on Europe’s transatlantic competition with the United States. It primarily focuses on economic competitiveness as an indicator, and demography in relation to labour markets, health care and education.
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    Policies to improve the resiliency of long-term social security financing

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
    This paper examines policies to index social security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors that impact system finances. It proposes a class of reforms designed to auto-correct for changes in the major demographic factors affecting social security financing.
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    Large declines in defined benefit plans are not inevitable: the experience of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

    Pensions Institute, 2008
    Looking at the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, this report evaluates the causes of decline in defined pension benefit plans and the move toward defined contribution pension plans.
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    KiwiSaver: New Zealand’s new subsidized retirement savings plans

    Social Security Online, 2007
    Since 2007 New Zealanders have had a new option for their retirement savings, KiwiSaver, a type of subsidised, defined contribution retirement savings plan offered by private-sector providers.
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    Financial literacy: an essential tool for informed consumer choice?

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2008
    Over the past thirty years, individuals have had to become increasingly responsible for their own financial security following retirement. The shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) plans has meant that workers today have to decide both how much they need to save for retirement and how to allocate pension wealth.
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    Bridging the social security divide: lessons from abroad

    Brookings Institution, 2008
    This paper addresses the social security divide in the United States. It particularly focuses on recent efforts by the Bush administration and highlights some lessons from other countries, whilst discussing a number of potential components of a reform package.
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    The housing crash and the retirement prospects of late baby boomers

    Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2008
    Traditionally, Americans envisioned workers’ income in retirement as a three-legged stool involving Social Security, a defined benefit pension and personal savings. In the last two decades, the share of the workforce with defined benefit pensions has fallen sharply so that this no longer is a substantial component of retirement income for most workers.
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    Reforming retirement-income systems: lessons from the recent experiences of OECD countries

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pension spending is set to increase significantly over the coming decades in response to population ageing.

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