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    Social panorama of Latin America 2009

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
    This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different states of the region vary in their preparedness to protect at-risk groups in an economic downturn. The paper underlines these findings:
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    Social protection policy: responses to older people’s needs in Zanzibar

    HelpAge International, 2009
    Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors.  But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing family structures, migration and general poverty have eroded traditional patterns of support, and even where support exists, it is normally inadequate.
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    What can we do about pensions?

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2009
    This paper sets out some of the problems with Canada's pension system and outlines some of the options that have been proposed to deal with them.
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    The impact of population ageing on the Czech economy

    Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2009
    The Czech Republic is facing a population-ageing phenomenon, and its demographic structure is expected to change dramatically, which might have a significant impact on the Czech economy. This paper analyses the potential effects of the expected demographic changes on aggregate economic performance taking into account alternative fiscal policy setups.
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    Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform

    CESifo, 2009
    Pension reform is nowadays in the forefront of the political agenda of many European countries. Using ireland as an example country, this paper analyses the different forces that can affect people’s evaluation of the state pension system. The main focus of the paper is to answer the following questions:
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    Brazil’s rural pension system, its development and impacts: lessons for China

    New Dynamics of Ageing, 2009
    Like Brazil in the 1960s, China is now facing problems of large geographical inequalities, as well high rates of rural to urban migration of younger aged adults. However, rural older people account for a much higher share of China‟s total population than in Brazil. This both increases the urgency for universal pension provision and increases the economic cost of doing so.
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    Building a society for all ages

    Building a society for all ages, UK Government, 2009
    UK Government strategy paper to designed to help Britain prepare for our ageing society. The paper highlights the need for a cultural shift, to build a vision of a society for all ages – where people are not defined by their age, and prejudice does not prevent harnessing the skills and experience of the older population.
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    Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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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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