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Understanding Income Security for Older Adults - Rethink Social Protection and Jobs in an Actively Aging World

World Bank - 2025

The note first discusses the main pillars of financial securityat older ages before focusing on the status of contributory and noncontributory (orsocial) pension systems in developing countries. It highlights worrying under-coverage ofcontributory pension systems in the face of persistent labor...

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Kenya : Do Infants Benefit When Older Siblings are Dewormed?

World Bank - 2015

millions. Currently, deworming in Kenya has been scaled up nationwide, giving primary school age children better health and, as …

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Transforming Indonesia's Teaching Force : From Pre-service Training to Retirement - Producing and Maintaining a High-quality, Efficient, and Motivated Workforce

World Bank - 2012

The report on the transforming Indonesia's teaching force is divided in two volumes. The executive summary is the first volume of a two-volume comprehensive report on teacher management in Indonesia. This volume summarizes the key findings of the detailed technical analysis in volume two, but...

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Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery

Gragnolati, Michele (contributor) - 2011

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The elderly and old age support in rural China

Cai, Fang (contributor) - 2012

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Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population aging on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery

Gragnolati, Michele (contributor) - 2011

This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...

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Peru : Restoring the Multiple Pillars of Old Age Income Security

World Bank - 2013

a dramatic fall in income at retirement time; and, "third pillar" or "pillar three" to the instruments, and institutions … restoring the multiple pillars of formal old age income security. The report reviews the current pillars of Peru's retirement …In this report, the components of a national retirement security system are categorized - as "pillars", or as "tiers …

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Reducing Elderly Poverty in Thailand : The Role of Thailand's Pension and Social Assistance Programs

World Bank - 2012

This policy note examines Thailand's programs for preventing poverty among the elderly, and suggests options for improving the effectiveness of these programs. The number of elderly people in Thailand will increase dramatically over the next 30 years, and the elderly already have a higher...

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The market for retirement products in Sweden

Palmer, Edward E. - 2008

1990s transformed the landscape for retirement products in Sweden. First, banking and insurance were extensively …. It examines the performance of providers of retirement products, including the PPM, and reviews the increasing focus on …

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Retirement : Can Pension Reform Reverse the Trend to Earlier Retirement?

World Bank - 2012

This edition of the Pension Reform Primer examines the global trend in early retirement among rich and poorer countries …, the reasons for people retiring early, the burden of early retirement on the pension system, recent policy initiatives to … between early retirement and incentives in the pension system, a result confirmed by other international studies and by more …

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