National Pension Act on July 2007 could bring on its sustainability, equity, and adequacy, and then it inquires into policy … implications for further development of the system. [ADBI Working Paper 135] …

study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the … twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly the risks of conventional development approaches and the real danger of … value changes for getting there. A fundamental shift in the development paradigm is found to be an urgent necessity for …

in interaction with the environment and its built-in systemic features that contradict long-term sustainable development …. These features include: (a) contradictions in the origin and meaning of sustainability; (b) the central role of the … continued promotion of expanding consumption; (d) globalism and the contradictions of continued Western-style development; and …

description of the indicators of urban sustainability that directly affect the development of communities, from households …The principal objective of this project is to summarize the characteristics that define urban sustainability in Mexican … cities; its basic principles and the advantages of their application in the development of future cities, as well as the …

diverse and slippery meanings and uses of sustainability in the post-crisis development assistance architecture. …The most recent global food crisis has forced development agencies in the global North to rethink the nexus between … agricultural development, food aid, and food security, and how development assistance strategies can enhance food security to more …

whether they are adequate to the standards of human rights und as-pects of sustainability. By that the global financial market …

socially responsible sustainability, in thesearch of criteria and instruments for the increase of the quality of lifefrom the … development. In the third part it proposes to advancein a generic methodology of the strategic reconstruction of the …