This paper will address Article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, 2006 (CRPD). International co-operation, as a treaty mandated obligation is one of the path breaking provisions of the CRPD and it does not have an equivalent in any other international human rights...

We introduce financial education that helps potential retail consumers of a suboptimal insurance product with shrouded attributes ask the right questions, and provide rules of thumb to evaluate theproduct. Our intervention reduces the potential demand for the suboptimal product. We use a model...

Viaticals are life insurance settlement contracts where the investor purchases a life insurance policy from a terminally ill policyholder. In these cases, the present value of the policyholder’s cash flows is substantially above the cash surrender value and below the face value of the policy....

This is the introduction and summary to the fifth phase of an ongoing project on Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement Incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the strong relationship across countries between social...

In many policy areas it is essential to use the best estimates of life expectancy, but such estimates are vital to most areas of pension policy - from indexed access age and the calculation of initial benefits to the financial sustainability of pension schemes and the operation of their...