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Guinea-Bissau Economic Update, Spring 2024 : Retiring the Fiscal Risk

World Bank Group - 2024

The Guinea-Bissau Economic Update monitors significant recent economic developments in the country, highlighting the key structural challenges Guinea-Bissau faces in its pursuit of inclusive and sustained growth

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The Evolution of the Canadian Pension Model : Practical Lessons for Building World-Class Pension Organizations

World Bank Group - 2017

stakeholders in emerging economies working to improve their pension arrangements and retirement systems. Although a growing body of …

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Thailand Financial Sector Assessment Program : Funded Pension System

World Bank Group - 2019

productivity growth. While these reforms are needed, private pensions can also play a role inimproving retirement income for … savings for retirement. This note also addresses the challenges of the private, funded system and proposes policy … recommendations for increasing coverage, improving efficiency, and delivering sustainable retirement income in the payout phase. This …

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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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Niger Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

World Bank Group - 2021

Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide important revenue to the country. Overall, most of the labor force is employed in a low productivity and shock prone rainfed agricultural...

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Bangladesh Social Protection Public Expenditure Review

World Bank Group - 2021

Bangladesh's economy is growing at a healthy pace and macro conditions are strong. Progress in social outcomes in Bangladesh is inspiring other countries, but deep challenges persist as the pace of poverty reduction slows down. Bangladesh labor market is dominated by low-productivity and...

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Nepal Social Protection : Review of Public Expenditure and Assessment of Social Assistance Programs, Main Report FY11-FY20

World Bank Group - 2021

Nepal's recent transition to a federal state structure provides a historic juncture to realize the role that social protection can play in achieving the constitutional goals of equity, inclusion, and prosperity. The transition to a federal structure of governance and the promulgation of a new...

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The Labor Market and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Vietnam : Impacts and Lessons Learned for Social Protection

World Bank Group - 2021

This note summarizes the impacts of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on Vietnam's labor market in 2020 and evaluates the social protection response to identify lessons learned for future crises. Vietnam's labor market was shaken by the outbreak in 2020. But an effective...

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Lesotho Social Protection Programs and Systems Review

World Bank Group - 2021

Lesotho, a high-altitude, landlocked country of 2.1 million people encircled by South Africa, has made gains in poverty reduction over the last decade but challenges of shared prosperity remain. The country has made significant investments in developing social protection programs as part of the...

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