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    Social security pension reforms in Thailand and Indonesia: unsustainable and unjust

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2008
    Historically, both Thailand and Indonesia have had relatively limited social security programmes, in terms of labour-force coverage and public expenditure. In the last decade, both have embarked on apparently ambitious reforms to move towards a more embracing system.
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    Country report: ageing in Nigeria – current state, social and economic implications

    Research Committee 11 Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological Association, 2009
    Nigeria is yet to enact a National Policy on the care and welfare of older persons. Since March 2003 it has remained in draft form.
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    The universal social pension in Nepal: an assessment of its impact on older people in Tanahun district

    HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009
    Nepal introduced a non-contributory social pension scheme in 1995. This scheme is unique to Asia being the primary universal pension scheme in the region and a model for other developing countries.
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    The social pension in India: a participatory study on poverty reduction impact and role of monitoring groups

    HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009
    Poor older people in India have had the benefit of a means-tested social pension for over 10 years. Selection of beneficiaries is a responsibility of local government, and there are reports that the scheme does not always benefit the intended recipients.
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    Pensions in Africa

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    In sub-Saharan Africa less than 10% of the older population has a contributory pension. This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries: Botswana, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
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    Bailing out the world’s poorest

    World Bank, 2009
    Following on shortly after the food price increases of 2007 and 2008, the current financial crisis is likely to have deep implications for poor people in the developing world. No doubt, a social protection response, supported by developed countries, could go a long way toward mitigating these effects.
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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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    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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