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    Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high priced funerals in South Africa

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009
    In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral.  Loans might be taken out with money  lenders, if need be, in order to have a funeral that befits the status of the household and of the person who has died.
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    Economic implications and sustainability of micropensions in the era of pension reforms in India

    International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
    The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme.  It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management by competing private fund managers and portability through centralised record keeping and administration.
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    Pension systems for the informal sector in Asia

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2009
    The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age.
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    Taking the long view

    Pensions Institute, 2009
    Governments are among the few agencies that can help the private sector hedge against the increasing problem of aggregate longevity risk. The authors of this paper urge governments to issue longevity bonds as soon as possible.
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    PensionReforms

    Online resource centre covering pensions issues.  Site contains collections of  papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published.
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    Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)

    New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change.
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    New Dynamics of Ageing

    New Dynamics of Ageing Programme is an eight year multidisciplinary research initiative with the ultimate aim of improving quality of life of older people.
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    DC - reality bites: the impact of the financial crisis on DC pension provision

    Towers Watson, 2009
    The current financial crisis has been a wake-up call for employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) pension schemes.
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    Social security reforms in Colombia: striking demographic and fiscal balances

    International Monetary Fund, 2009
    Colombia established pension benefits in 1967, through the creation of the public Pay-as-You-Go System (PAYGO). However, this system quickly dissolved into a crisis as a result of low participation rates.
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    Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Boston College

    The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College promotes quality of employment as an imperative for the 21st century multi-generational workforce.

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