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Future Targets and Multiple Equilibria
Guha, Ashok S.; Guha, Brishti - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Multiple Pareto-rankable equilibria may obtain in an overlapping generations model where consumers save to reach a fixed target. Existence and uniqueness conditions are discussed. The model displays excess consumption sensitivity to current income and perfect old-age insurance.
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How Are Government Hospitals Performing? A Study of Resource Management in DOH-retained Hospitals
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Sanglay-Dunleavy, Abigail Barbara; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To...
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Pension and Social Security Schemes in Pakistan : Some Policy Options
Mahmood, Naushin; Nasir, Zafar Mueen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
An examination of the public pension and social security schemes in Pakistan reveals that the provision of regular pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security schemes that are operational in the public and private sectors cover a small proportion of old-age...
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A Study on Financial Deficit and Declining Birthrate â۠From the Viewpoint of “Children as a Social Security Revenue Sourceâ€Â
Oguro, Kazumasa; Yuyama, Shoichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial difficulties. Recognizing these conditions, the government is now examining a framework for maintaining fiscal sustainability, mainly at the Council of Economic and Fiscal Policy. The...
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Can Social Security Boost Domestic Consumption in the People’s Republic of China?
Dewen, Wang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and improve its social security system and provide basic...
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Insecurities of the old and marginalized : Inflation, Oil Shocks, Financial Crisis and Social Security
Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typical savings cum pension portfolio and the specific consumption basket of the old, as prices of...
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Public Policy Towards the Elderly in Indonesia : Current Policy and Future Directions
Arifianto, Alex - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
vulnerable to old age poverty, since many of them will have little extra income (e.g. from savings or pension) to finance their …
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Endogenous Population Growth, Social Security, and Dynamic Inefficiency
Takahata, Junichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Population growth rate matters for determining the optimal amount of capital in the context of dynamic inefficiency. From the aspect of social security, if there are pension schemes, individuals have no motive for having a child as income source for retirement periods. Thus, it is important to...
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Income Distributions, Inequality, and Poverty in Asia, 1992–2010
Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Griffiths, William E.; Rao, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …
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An Analysis of the national Budget : Allocation for the Ultra Poor
Khatun, Fahmida; Khan, Towfiqul Islam; Nabi, Ashiqun - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Till date,conceptualisation of poverty in Bangladesh’s policy making is limited to income/consumption poverty where a … rise or fall of income/consumption above or below a pre-defined poverty line determines changes in poverty. To identify the … budgetary and fiscal measures which can be redesigned in a way that can significantly reduce poverty and ensure economic and …
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