While Thailand's pension system is typically described as a multipillar pension scheme, its design is highly fragmented and offers adequate coverage only to a small segment of the population, including civil servants and high-income individuals. In its 2018 Article IV report, the IMF highlighted...

This paper presents a technical note on Mexico’s Financial Sector Assessment Program update. The Mexican experience displays interesting characteristics that provide lessons for other countries that still need to design the decumulation phase of their newly established second pillars. The...

In March 1999, Poland implemented a systemic pension reform that involved the introduction of a multi-pillar pension system to replace the defined benefit (DB), pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system that had been operating since 1949. This technical note on the pension sector was elaborated as part of the...

This paper analyzes the performance and development of the Mexican pension annuity market in Mexico that stemmed from the 1997 pension reform. The Mexican experience displays interesting characteristics that provide lessons for other countries that still need to design the decumulation phase of...

The penetration level of the insurance and pension sectors in Malawi is low, but it seems adequate as compared with other countries in similar stages of development. Concentration and costs are high, the regulatory framework is outdated or inexistent and supervision is weak. An innovative pilot...

Dieses Dossier steckt den politischen, ökologischen, ökonomischen und technischenRahmen der individuellen Elektromobilität ab, in dem Kommunen neueDienstleistungen für eine nachhaltige Mobilität entwickeln können.

With regard to the rationale of a sustainable development, those innovation processesare of relevance which at the same time contribute to the wealth of our society and tosafeguarding our natural bases of life. In a sustainability perspective, resource efficiencyand pollution reduction are...

Für die Umsetzung des Leitbilds „Nachhaltige Entwicklung“ (UN-Dokument „Agenda21“) ist eine zielführende Praxis erforderlich. Noch ist diese unzureichend und in der Realpolitikwird klar, dass die bisherigen Lösungsansätze nicht genügen, die vielfältigen lokalenund globalen Probleme...