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On the financial sustainability of earnings-related pension schemes with "pay-as-you-go" financing and the role of government indexed bonds

Robalino, David A. - 2006

"In this paper the authors reconsider the idea of an earnings-related pension system with reserves invested in indexed government bonds as a mechanism to both ensure financial sustainability and improve security. They start by reviewing the characterization of the sustainable rate of return of...

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Stocktaking of Adaptive Social Protection and Disaster Risk Management

World Bank - 2023

In today's global environment, countries face various shocks, such as natural hazards, economic and health crises, conflict, violence, and forced displacement. Disasters triggered by natural hazards cause billions of dollars in damage per year, and these disasters, and their costs, are...

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Madagascar : Back to the Future on the Road to Sustained and Balanced Growth, Country Economic Memorandum, Volume 1, Main Report

World Bank - 2012

The objective of this study is to accompany Malagasy authorities in their transition towards economic emergence. If the contribution of foreign capital and the abundance of natural resources should help the Malagasy economy escape from the poverty trap by increasing its domestic savings and...

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Madagascar : Back to the Future on the Road to Sustained and Balanced Growth, Country Economic Memorandum, Volume 2, Annexes

World Bank - 2012

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Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks

L. Cropper, Maureen - 2009

"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...

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The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda

Walque, Damien de - 2009

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …

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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes

Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009

addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

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