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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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    Preparing for policy changes: social security expectations and pension scheme participation

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    This paper discusses the relationship between public and private savings by analysing private pension scheme participation in the presence of such policy uncertainty. It assesses the influence of subjective policy change expectations on voluntary pension scheme participation in the Netherlands.
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    Exploratory study of micro-pensions in the Philippines

    WorldGranny, 2008
    This study assesses prospects and options for developing private pension programmes that address the needs of the elderly in the Philippines. It seeks to look at issues with respect to regulation and policy, the characteristics of demand and supply in micro-pension products, and the solutions to gaps and challenges in the provision of micro-pension products to the poor.
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    Micro-pensions in India: critical issues, challenges and strategies for future

    WorldGranny, 2007
    This paper discusses micro-pensions in India with a particular focus on the critical issues, and the current challenges and strategies. It also looks at the role that Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs) play in micro-pensions.
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    Policies to improve the resiliency of long-term social security financing

    American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
    This paper examines policies to index social security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors that impact system finances. It proposes a class of reforms designed to auto-correct for changes in the major demographic factors affecting social security financing.
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    Large declines in defined benefit plans are not inevitable: the experience of Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States

    Pensions Institute, 2008
    Looking at the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland, this report evaluates the causes of decline in defined pension benefit plans and the move toward defined contribution pension plans.

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