All pension systems have been affected by the financial and economic crisis, although in different ways. This paper analyses the effects of the crisis on pension systems and the resulting responses and changes, and offers a theoretical interpretation of these responses. This interpretation...

Purpose – To examine the case for reforming India's current provident and pension fund governance and regulatory structures. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews various components of India's social security system with a view to identifying reform needs in their governance and...

Purpose – During the early 1970s, faced with the serious demographic situation, China began to fully implement the policy of family planning in urban and rural regions. Nowadays, the problems of pension and medical care for aged parents confronted by the first generation of the one‐child...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the crisis of social security and state pension systems in the ageing industrial societies is actually a crisis of the model of social and economic organization. Design/methodology/approach – The present economic model of industrial...