Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs …, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are many linkages between healthcare and pension arrangements—in terms of …

Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs …, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are many linkages between healthcare and pension arrangements—in terms of …

Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs …, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are many linkages between healthcare and pension arrangements—in terms of …

This article derives a simple method for projecting pension deficit as percent of GDP in future years based on commonly … equilibrium equation of pension funds, our new formula decomposes the retirees-workers ratio which mixes various kinds of impacts … into three more-easily-predictable variables the elderly dependent ratio, the prevalence of pension coverage, and the …

approach of assessing the impact of exports on growth and of external capital inflows on investment may be flawed. A large part … of the recent (2003-07) increase in saving and investment rate and in growth rate in the Indian economy may have been due … considerable underemployment and where additional demand can create its own additional supply, (b) mobilize domestic savings for …

, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 20102020 (ADB/ADBI 2009). Asia has large savings, significant international reserves …, and rapid accumulations of funds that could be utilized for meeting these infrastructure investment needs, but Asian … markets and using development banking institutions to support infrastructure investment? Second, how can Asian public and …

Australia’s foreign investment regime plays an important role in Australia maintaining an open investment environment … while providing the Australian community confidence that new investment projects are in the interest of the community. Until … 2005, the foreign investment regime treated all investment sources on a non-discriminatory basis but since then some …

possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …

This paper summarizes the conceptual rationale for investment liberalization to fully exploit the potential of regional … trading arrangements. It goes on to examine the treatment of investment in emerging FTAs/RTAs in the Asia-Pacific region and … the specific investment provisions and their consistency with the existing multilateral provisions on investment, viz …