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Pension reforms have been high on the political agenda in many developed countries over recent years and pension issues have been discussed intensely in the public as a result. In recent years, much effort has been devoted to make state, public and private pension systems fiscally more...
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countries that cover 75% of the world population. The pressure-to-space indicator ranks Poland, Turkey and Greece high. Apart …
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that the real world experiences are in line with what could be expected theoretically and argues that regardless of whether …
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This paper examines the implicit subsidies within pension systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. We first calculate the theoretical benefits of pension for hypothetical workers in 25 countries in LAC. We show that, on average, LAC's pension systems are subsidized, as they...
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In his seminal model (Feldstein, 1985), the government operates a social security system to counter the representative worker's myopia. (i) For a complete myope, he determined a sizable optimal tax rate (and the corresponding benefit level). (ii) For a partially shortsighted worker, he...
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This paper is about public sector pensions, an issue that has become increasingly contentious in a number of countries in recent years, including in the United Kingdom. In the UK the public debate has focussed on the perceived generosity of these pensions, which, it is often claimed, contrasts...
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provision of social pension across the world allows the author to examine trends in social pension provision in the last five …
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Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives …
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The 8th World Pensions Forum was held 23-24 May: 130 pension executives and supranational experts representing $12 …
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the world. The authors begin by looking at high-income democracies in which governments have, to a large degree, taken … sorts of ingenious ways.The authors reject the World Bank blueprint of formal, structured pension systems. They suggest …, government failure around the world has had catastrophic effects.2008, Readings 63, ISBN 978 0 255 36602 1, 311pp, PB …
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