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Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133098
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Private (Occupational) Pensions in China: A Note on Recent Developments
Hu, Yu-Wei - eSocialSciences - 2005
China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not able to cope with the rapid ageing population. The Chinese government is well aware of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487668
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Rebuilding China’s Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters
Pei, Minxin - eSocialSciences - 2005
China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of this reform, surveys the progress of China’s pension reform, describes its principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341781
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China: Pension Provision and Pension Administration
Wang, Shaoguang - eSocialSciences - 2006
In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole country, just as most of other countries do. In the short term, however, it is feasible for China to establish only a province-based pension system, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341839
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Propensity Score Matching Method in Quasi-Experimental Designs: An Approach to Program Evaluation of INHP-III
Gakhar, Kaushal Deep; Kapur, Vidhu; Kaur, Navneet - eSocialSciences - 2010
as use of experimental design entails creation of treatment and comparison group thereby providing benefits to some and … in construction of both treatment and comparison at baseline. This makes attribution of observed outcomes and impacts to … such alternative for addressing the concerns comparison and attribution. This paper is based on the case of Endline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466284
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Using Family Histories to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Chronic Poverty
Miller, Robert - eSocialSciences - 2007
A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-generation ‘social genealogical’ chart of the family and a strategy for interviewing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699094
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A Veteran's Asia Reflections
Walter, Norbert - eSocialSciences - 2011
the Hindukush to Japan are assessed and put into a global context. The issues addressed include the elections in Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002296
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Development and Health in Poor Countries: Role of Interntional Organizations and Switzerland
Briand, Bastein; Colli, Lorenza Eder; Gut, Anne; Henny, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study tries to better understand three fields which seems to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated access to medicines : 1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property (IP) rights in the more general framework of human rights ; 2. the mechanism which enabled the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364238
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Understanding China’s Consumers
Hansakul, Syetarn - eSocialSciences - 2010
China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume three times more.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677769
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Asian Century: A Comparative Analysis of Growth in China, India and other Asian Economies
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in the functioning of markets and the economy. The fact that China has succeeded therefore should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752338