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    Distributional analysis of pension and social security reforms: alternative approaches and a report on an expert panel meeting

    Urban Institute, USA, 2008
    As the US Social Security system faces demographic challenges, distributional analysis will play an important role in designing policies which ensure its fiscal solvency. Most notably, policy makers will be concerned about the distribution of the gains and losses of potential policy reforms.
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    New frontiers of research on retirement

    2008
    Corporate and community leaders and researchers will be giving increasing attention to the question of what adjustments will be needed as a consequence of the wave of retirements in the years ahead. This book has been designed to contribute to the basic information that Canadian leaders and researchers will need when they begin to devote much more time and resources to these adjustments.
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    Pension fund performance

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    This study, by the OECD in collaboration with the World Bank and some private sector institutions, aims to compare investment performance of privately managed pension funds across several OECD, Latin American and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
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    Rethinking pension reforms in Chile: implications for developing Asia

    Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2008
    The reform of the Chilean Pension System in 1981 has probably been one of the most widely discussed reform programs in non-OECD countries, and the most widely emulated in Latin America.
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    Street trade in Africa: a review

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This paper aims to outline broad trends relating to street trade in Africa. It also hopes to assess what is known about this phenomenon in the continent and how it has been understood over time, with a view to assist in framing future research.
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    Macroeconomic effects of pension reform in Russia

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2008
    Russia’s ageing problem is further aggravated by the fact that its population is rapidly shrinking, at an expected rate of about 0.5 percent per year until 2050. This implies a decline in contributions to the pension system, while payouts will increase. The existing pension system is ill-prepared for this challenge.
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    Voluntary enrolment in the Peruvian private pension system

    Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe, 2008
    Peru reformed its pension system in 1993 and similar to many other Latin American countries, the affiliation to any pension system (public or private) is mandatory for all formal salaried workers and voluntary for informal workers.
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    Aging, poverty, and social pension in Vietnam

    National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008
    In Vietnam, a social pension scheme was implemented in 2004 to provide a monthly benefit to the elderly aged 90 and over who did not have a contributory pension. In April 2007, the eligible age was revised to 85 and over. Impacts of the current scheme have been limited in terms of both coverage and poverty reduction.
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    Demographic changes and pension finances in Vietnam

    National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2008
    This paper aims to provide a long-term financial vision for the Vietnamese pension scheme using stochastic modelling for key variables under an actuarial framework. In particular, it projects the pension fund balances in order to determine whether the scheme will be financially sustainable.
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    The new rural social pension insurance programme of Baoji City

    HelpAge International, 2008
    Baoji City is located in western Shaanxi, and is the second largest city in the province after Xi’an. It has a population of 3.76 million, 74 per cent of whom live in rural areas. The Baoji government instituted the New Rural Social Pension Insurance Programme in July 2007, one of the first of its kind in China.Insurance subscribers fall under three categories:

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