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    Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

    HelpAge International, 2008
    The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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    Reforming pensions

    CESifo, 2009
    The primary cause of the pensions ‘crisis’ in many countries, this paper argues, is a failure to adapt to very long-run trends: increasing life expectancy (with exceptions), declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Superimposed are two more recent phenomena: the baby boom (widespread, though not universal) and the general increase in the scale of pension systems.
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    The 2008 Chilean reform to first-pillar pensions

    CESifo, 2009
    The Chilean Congress approved in January 2008 the replacement of her two current non-contributory subsidies for the old poor (“first pillar”) with a unified program with a pioneering design. This paper describes the policy process and evaluates the new design. The first finding is that reform was not driven by poverty among the old.
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    Pension provision: government failure around the world

    Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
    This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that widespread difficulties with state pension schemes make it surprising that there is not more favourable acceptance of private provision for income in old age.
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    Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

    The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases.
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    Pension markets in focus, December 2008

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    This feature discusses the impacts of the current financial crisis on private pension regimes. It points out that private pension schemes in the OECD area have lost nearly 20% of their assets between January and October 2008.In defined benefit plans:
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    Kwa Wazee

    Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania.
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    Tackling poverty in old age: a universal pension for Sri Lanka

    HelpAge International, 2008
    While 25% of Sri Lanka's population will be older than 60 years by 2041, the country's existing pension system is unable to guarantee a minimum income to the elderly since:
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    Population ageing in Malawi: understanding challenges, responding to opportunities: proceedings of the meeting held in Lilongwe, Malawi on 28-29 November 2007

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    This report summarises the themes that emerged as priorities as a result of papers presented at a joint BSF (Bingu Silvergrey Foundation for the Elderly) / FAO meeting on population ageing issues in Malawi: Papers presented covered:
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    Salt, soap and shoes for school, evaluation report. The impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in the KwaWazee project in Tanzania’s Kagera region

    Kwa Wazee, 2008
    Cash transfers have become an increasingly popular way of providing social protection in low-income African countries. This study aims to find out more about the impact of social pensions for older people and the combination with child benefits in older people headed households, and what can be learnt from the experiences with this approach in the Kwa Wazee project in Tanzania.

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