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The Evolution of the Canadian Pension Model : Practical Lessons for Building World-Class Pension Organizations
World Bank Group - 2017
Canada is home to some of the world's most admired and successful public pension organizations. This was not always the case. As recently as the mid-1980s, many Canadian public pensions were invested largely or entirely in domestic government bonds, were funded primarily on a pay-as-you go...
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Thailand Financial Sector Assessment Program : Funded Pension System
World Bank Group - 2019
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...
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Pension System plus Climate Risk : Measurement plus Mitigation
World Bank Group - 2020
This report focuses on pension system greening and aims to provide data-driven recommendations to orient climate-aligned investment practices. In order to undertake a holistic analysis, this report consists of the following sections: a literature review outlining the need to green the global...
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Making Pension Savings Easy and Efficient for Informal Sector Workers : Learning from Kenya's Haba Haba Pilot
World Bank Group - 2024
Haba Haba, which means "bit by bit" in Swahili, is a voluntary pension scheme in Kenya for workers in informal employment and promises to be a scheme through which they can slowly but surely save for their old age. The scheme, administered by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was launched...
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Demand for Skills in Albania : An Analysis of the Skills Towards Employment and Productivity Survey
World Bank Group - 2018
This report aims to provide policy makers in Albania with new evidence to inform the design and implementation of public policies on post-secondary education, vocational education and training (VET) system labor market information and intermediation, and labor policies. The STEP Employer Survey...
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Building Forward Better to Ensure Learning for All Children in Iraq : An Education Reform Path
World Bank Group - 2021
Human capital development is imperative to achieve sustainable economic growth in Iraq. At the heart of Iraq's human capital crisis is a learning crisis, which is exacerbated by effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis on education service delivery. The low levels of human capital...
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Nepal : Can Incentives Drive Publishers to Produce Quality Reading Materials and Schools to Buy and Use Them?
World Bank Group - 2022
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund supports and disseminates research on the impact of results-based financing on learning outcomes. This study evaluates how the use of incentives impacted the production, procurement, and utilization of supplementary reading materials...
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Value for Money from Public Education Expenditure on Elementary Education in India
World Bank Group - 2016
The World Bank has been supporting the Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE)program for India through its support to the flagship program of the Government of India, theSarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The Bank's ongoing support to SSA is a little over USD 1 billion.With reducing national...
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Understanding the Drivers of Public School Performance and Efficiency in the Philippines
World Bank Group - 2016
This note attempts to identify the factors associated with differences in overall school performance and efficiency. It … between public spending and education outcomes. The note found that school performance is related to several of these key … factors including school governance and school infrastructure. It also found that student and school characteristics, school …
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