The issue of the retirement age is fundamentally linked to policies on social protection. It is an issue that … law in Vietnam, several options were presented for changing the retirement age of women. However, the National Assembly …'s retirement age in Vietnam to serve as a basis for further consultation and policy dialogue with the Government. …

Index insurance, such as weather indexing, addresses other inherent problems in insurance by using an indicator that is … insurance are being tried currently in diverse settings ranging from India to Mongolia to Malawi. Marketing costs may limit the … provision of such insurance to small farmers, but even in such cases microfinance institutes may serve as market intermediaries …

approach to achieving this namely, carefully devised contracts with investors, and in doing so offers a number of concrete … solutions. This paper marries two substantial bodies of research to show how investment contracts can be set up to promote … downsides through better drafting of contracts between investors and governments for the lease of farmland. This derived from …

1990s transformed the landscape for retirement products in Sweden. First, banking and insurance were extensively … deregulated in the 1980s, while the securities markets experienced major expansion. Insurance received a large boost from the … insurance. The old defined benefit public pension system was replaced by a notional or nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC …

This edition of the Pension Reform Primer examines the global trend in early retirement among rich and poorer countries …, the reasons for people retiring early, the burden of early retirement on the pension system, recent policy initiatives to … between early retirement and incentives in the pension system, a result confirmed by other international studies and by more …