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Reducing poverty and social disparities in Lithuania
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2020
Reducing poverty remains an important challenge, and the COVID-19-crisis may further reinforce social vulnerabilities. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across population groups with the elderly, people with...
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …
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Small but effective: India's targeted unconditional cash transfers
Dutta, Puja; Howes, Stephen; Murgai, Rinku - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
comparison to the public distribution system reveals that the main strength of the social pensions scheme is its relatively low … level of leakage. We hypothesize that social pensions suffer less from corruption than India's other safety net programs …
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The Impact of Social Security on Household Welfare: Evidence from a Transition Country
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
including contributory pensions and social allowances on consumption expenditure of receiving households, and subsequently … investigates the impact of the social security transfers on poverty in Vietnam. It is found that both pensions and social … allowances increase expenditure of households, especially expenditure on non-food consumption. Pensions have a higher effect on …
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Demographic change across the globe maintaining social security in ageing economies
Peeters, Marga; Groot, Lucas Franciscus Michaël - 2011
from Turkey and India, developing countries rank low due to low spending on the old (pensions, health care) and the young …
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Chapter 32 Social security
Feldstein, Martin; Liebman, Jeffrey B. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 2245-2324). 2002
This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical issues dealing with Social Security pensions. The first part of the …
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Social security reforms and early retirement
Fehr, Hans; Sterkeby, Wenche I.; Thøgersen, Øystein - 2000
In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts of the pension systems. These reforms have a flavour of increased efficiency...
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Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio - 2013
identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …
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Aging, saving, and public pensions in Japan
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Suzuki, Wataru; Hatta, Tatsuo - 2007
We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan's household saving rate and on its public pension system and the impact of that system on Japan's household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan's population can explain the level of, and past and...
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Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal-agent model
Luzolo, Didier Mumpambala - 2016
African populations need better support through social protection mechanisms. Among those who need social security are millions of older people who, having worked all their lives in the formal sector, are in precarious situations with lower benefits. This study aims to appreciate theoretically,...
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