pensions is limited to formal sector employees only. A number of social security schemes that are operational in the public and … that emphasises the need to implement reforms of public pensions and programmes of social protection. Efficient deployment …

future development of state pensions, arguing that their combined effect is to restore something like a flat rate state … contribution records. This leaves a choice for the remaining sixth of National Insurance benefits: to separate out state pensions …

This article outlines the recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, and the data and analysis on which they were … system. The Commission concluded that without reform, structural problems with UK pensions would lead to increasingly … have now largely been adopted by the UK government, imply eventual increases both in state spending on pensions as a share …

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 …

Social Security programmes around the world link public pensions to retirement: people do not lose their pensions if … consistent with it. The main idea is that pensions are a means to induce retirement, that is, to buy the elderly out of the …