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Understanding the role and functions of social policy and social security systems is a key point for a discussion on reforms of the retirement systems. In this essay I describe the subject and range of social policy in the modern welfare state. The work has a descriptive character and aims at...
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Malawi has been implementing structural adjustment reforms since 1981 in search of a way to revive its declining … whether or not the claim that structural adjustments lead to manufacturing growth has been applicable to Malawi. By comparing … SAPs have assisted in improving manufacturing growth in Malawi though dismally. This dismal performance is evidenced by …
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Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world; this is largely due to the fact that more than 80% of the total …, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) is one way of achieving economic diversification in Malawi, indirectly addressing the … problem of poverty and employment creation . The Government of Malawi has, in recent years recognized the role that SMMEs can …
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Further to investigation of how Malawi accumulated external debts amounting to $2.7 billion, without a corresponding … gaps in external liquidity and increasing demand for foreign borrowing. The paper also finds that Malawi suffered a heavy … after 1976 was transmitted worldwide and as a result, the rate of interest on Malawi debt rose (by 373%) from only 1.9% in …
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It has been argued that most of Malawi’s smallholder farmers are too poor to benefit from any kind of credit, and that …
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This publication is a non-technical report prepared for Polish Ministry of Economy and Labor. The main goal is to present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the period 1998-2004 and confront Polish experiences with...
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When it comes to retirement income policy, there is a general perception that workers have full 40-year working careers before retiring. Further, it is generally assumed that workers with low lifetime earnings have low earnings in each year during a normal working career. The basic research...
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That the Government of Mauritius provides nearly every resident over the age of 60 with a non-contributory, basic pension is one of the best-kept secrets in the world. The scheme dates from 1950 and became universal in 1958, following abolition of a means test. Remarkably, introduction of a...
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Most workers in developing countries have no access to pensions in old age. Well-intentioned reformers have concentrated on privatization, but this does nothing to expand coverage. Non-contributory, universal pensions automatically protect an entire population, in a way that contributory...
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We simulate the budget of the main pension institution of the country, the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS), from 1995, the year the reform was passed, to 2050, when the new system should be mature. We perform several sensitivity analyses to evaluate which are the key exogenous variables and...
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