This 2015 edition of the Pension Adequacy Report, published in two volumes, assesses the degree to which pensions manage to provide older people with adequate income and poverty protection. Having examined the role of pensions in current living standards, the report discusses the impact of...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Initial conditions: Yugoslavia and Albania -- chapter 3 The early reformers: Croatia, Macedonia and Albania -- chapter 4 The late reformers: BiH, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo -- chapter 5 Privatization and foreign direct investment -- chapter 6...

"Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American...