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    Disability insurance with pre-funding and private participation: the Chilean model

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2008
    Social security systems in many countries face problems of high and escalating disability costs. The disability insurance system in Chile is less well-known than the old age pension system, but it is equally innovative.
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    How many struggle to get by in retirement?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
    The dramatic decline in the official poverty rate of adults age 65 and older over the last four decades in the United States leads many to assume that reducing poverty among older adults need not be a Government priority. This general observation fails to recognise the deficiencies in the official measure of poverty in the United States.
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    Population ageing and public pension reforms in a small open economy

    European Central Bank, 2008
    This paper addresses the issue of pension reforms under demographic changes that are likely to occur in Europe over the next 50 years. This demographic change is characterised not only by lower population growth but also by the alteration of the population structure, with a decline in the proportion of young people to retired workers.
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    Pension and social security schemes in Pakistan: some policy options

    Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan, 2008
    Currently in Pakistan the provision of regular pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security schemes that are operational in the public and private sectors cover a small proportion of old-age population, whereas a significant proportion of the elderly population working in the informal sector remains largely unprotected by social security schemes.
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    University of Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC)

    The MRRC serves as a national resource fostering research, communication, and education related to  Social Security, pension and retirement related policies.
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    Department of Pensions, Sri Lanka

    Sri Lankan pension information web site, covering employees of the government, officers in state, provincial councils, and armed forces. Site includes member statistics.
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    State and local pensions are different from private plans

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
    This brief identifies the key differences between employer-sponsored plans in the private and public sectors, including:
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    Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact

    CESifo, 2007
    In anticipation of the rising costs associated with ageing, European countries are reforming their pension systems, by reducing the generosity of pension arrangements, increasing retirement age and switching from pure Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension provision to pre-funding, including reduction of public debt and partial privatisation.
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    Learning from the Chilean experience: the determinants of pension switching

    Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
    This working paper examines consumer knowledge about the Chilean pension system, to determine whether financial illiteracy might account for the persistence of market frictions in the pension marketplace. It uses a change in the regulatory rules governing the marketing of Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) in Chile as a case study.
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    Dreams that do not come true: re-addressing social security to expand old-age social protection: the case of informal workers in El Salvador

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2007
    This paper explores obstacles and opportunities to expand social protection for informal workers in El Salvador. It rules out the short-term possibility that old-age social protection in El Salvador will be expanded through social security measures. Workers are entitled to pension only if they fulfil certain minimum requirements that are out of reach for the majority.

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