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    Pension coverage and informal sector workers: international experiences

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing countries.
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    Social security systems around the world

    Population Reference Bureau, 2009
    Social security programs are increasing in number around the world.  Systems in many of countrieshave funding problems. Social security may also have unintended effects on economic and demographic behaviour in a country. Many of these behaviors are only now beginning to be understood. This briefing looks at:
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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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    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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    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.
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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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    Can 401(k) plans provide adequate retirement resources?

    Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
    Despite only having been in existence for 27 years – less than a typical working career – some analysts seem to have concluded that 401(k) plans are a failure.
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    Socioeconomic differences in mortality - implications for pension policy

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    The report discusses implications of mortality differentials for five major areas of pension policy: the progressivity of the pension system, the pension eligibility age, the retirement incentives, future pension expenditures and private pensions. Mortality depends on socio-economic status and these factors are highlighted:
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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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