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    Providing greater old-age security in China

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
    China’s population is ageing fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. Migration of the young to urban areas is raising the proportion of the elderly in the rural population and the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas.
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    Response to 'Targeting Social Cash Transfers' comment

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
    Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author of this response suggests that the Comment is shaky, incoherent, defeatist, misguided and - in the final analysis - fatally flawed.The respondent argues that the comment is:
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    Electronic delivery of social cash transfers: lessons learned and opportunities for Africa

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
    Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to receive their benefit.
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    Work histories and pension entitlements in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2010
    This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access pensions are apparently unattainable for large segments of the population, at least under the labour market conditions that have prevailed in the region.
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    Retirement responses to a generous pension reform: evidence from a natural experiment in Eastern Europe

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2010
    Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension systems in the developing world.
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    National retirement savings systems in Australia, Chile,New Zealand and the United Kingdom: lessons for the United States

    Retirement Security Project, Brookings, 2010
    Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it will spend more in benefits than it will receive in payroll and other taxes.
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    Social security system in India: an international comparative analysis

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010
    In India the lack of a wide social security net has serious implications for well-being of aged, poor people who are unable to meet their old age needs. India’s workforce is largely based in unorganised sector where pension provisions are mainly of a  voluntary nature. The size of this sector is a bottleneck in social security provision to the elderly poor in India.
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    Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru

    Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, 2010
    Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old defined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP).  However, members of the SPP (those who previously belonged to the SNP) realised that the expected or already received benefits in the SPP were lower than those in the SNP.  In order to correct this effects, there have been many costly adjustments
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    A social pension in Zambia: perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete

    HelpAge International, 2009
    The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best form the basis of a national social protection system. The pilot being run in the Katete district transfers money to everyone over the age of 60 years, thus creating a form of social pension.
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    UNECE policy brief on ageing 1: mainstreaming ageing

    Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe, 2009
    This policy brief looks at how governments can integrate ageing-related issues into all policy fields in order to bring societies and economies in harmony with demographic change. It also addresses the ways in which all age groups can be equally involved in designing, implementing and evaluating ageing-related policies and programmes.

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