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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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  Grand coalitions for unpopular reforms: building a cross-party consensus to raise the retirement age

  Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population, 2008

  A striking feature of pension reforms in the advanced industrialised countries is their scant use of what would be the most effective solution to the problems of pension expenditure growth and income insecurity in old age: the increase of the retirement age to more than 65 years.
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  Sharing demographic risk – who is afraid of the baby bust?

  Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2008

  Falling fertility rates and increasing life expectancy are putting a strain on existing public Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pension systems. The authors model the optimal reaction of a pubic PAYGO pension system to demographic shocks. They assume the existence of a fully committed planner.
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  Reforms to an individual account pension system and their effects on work and contribution decisions: the case of Chile

  Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2008

  This study evaluates the effect of Chile’s pension system rules and regulations on individuals’ contribution and working decisions. In 1980 Chile was the first country to switch from a pay-as-you-go system to a
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  Poverty of children and older adults: Taiwan’s case in an international perspective

  Luxembourg Income Study, 2008

  This paper examines poverty risks across countries and age groups with a special focus on Taiwan. Relative to Western countries, Taiwan has: a moderate child poverty rate a much higher elderly poverty rate
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  Social protection and ageing in Malawi

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2008

  In the past, the elderly in Malawi used to depend on the economic and social support of their children and the community. With increased socio-economic difficulties and changing family ties, children fail to look after their ageing parents. Similarly, communities are failing to provide for the needs of the elderly.
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  An evaluation of the poverty reduction impact of the non-contributory old age pension scheme in Lesotho: The case of Manonyane

  University of Pretoria, 2007

  In November 2004, the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho introduced a non-contributory old age pension scheme for persons 70 years of age and older. The need to reduce poverty in this particularly vulnerable group was seen as an important objective.
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  Poverty reduction and non-contributory old age pension programme in the Roma Valley: evidence from logistic probability model

  African Econometric Society, 2007

  In November 2004, the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho introduced an non-contributory old age pension scheme, in keeping with one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of poverty alleviation by the year 2015 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing which calls for the involvement of the elderly in development strategies.  This paper is an effort to investigate the impact
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  The economic and social impacts of the old age pension on the protection of the Basotho elderly and their households

  University of Pretoria, 2008

  This paper presents the preliminary findings from survey research done between 2005 and 2007 of how the availability of a universal old age pension since November 2004 has affected the economic and social well-being of its elderly recipients in Lesotho.
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  Old, single and poor: using microsimulation and microdata to analyse poverty and the impact of policy change among older Australians

  National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, 2008

  In recent months in Australia there has been extended debate about the adequacy of the old age pension to provide an acceptable standard of living. Projected increases in the number of age pension recipients in the future, as well as concerns about the current wellbeing of age pensioners, particularly in light of increasing costs of living, has prompted debate about the current level of payments.

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