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Private (Occupational) Pensions in China: A Note on Recent Developments

Hu, Yu-Wei - eSocialSciences - 2005

China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, Chinaâ€™s current pension system is badly structured, and not able to cope with the rapid ageing population. The Chinese government is well aware of...

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Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets

Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012

Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007â€“2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...

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Rebuilding Chinaâ€™s Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters

Pei, Minxin - eSocialSciences - 2005

China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of this reform, surveys the progress of Chinaâ€™s pension reform, describes its principal...

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China: Pension Provision and Pension Administration

Wang, Shaoguang - eSocialSciences - 2006

In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole country, just as most of other countries do. In the short term, however, it is feasible for China to establish only a province-based pension system, a...

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Using Family Histories to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Chronic Poverty

Miller, Robert - eSocialSciences - 2007

A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-generation â€˜social genealogicalâ€™ chart of the family and a strategy for interviewing...

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Propensity Score Matching Method in Quasi-Experimental Designs: An Approach to Program Evaluation of INHP-III

Gakhar, Kaushal Deep; Kapur, Vidhu; Kaur, Navneet - eSocialSciences - 2010

as use of experimental design entails creation of treatment and comparison group thereby providing benefits to some and … in construction of both treatment and comparison at baseline. This makes attribution of observed outcomes and impacts to … such alternative for addressing the concerns comparison and attribution. This paper is based on the case of Endline …

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Recent Financial Market Developments and Implications for Monetary Policy

Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2007

The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...

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Financial Integration in East Asia: How Far? How Much Further to Go?

Rajan, Ramkishen S.; Siregar, Reza Y.; Cavoli, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2006

, Singapore, Korea, China and Japan) as well as Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei. These are the economies that have consciously …

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Development of National Infrastructures open to Asia and the Role of Fukuoka

Yamasaki, Akira - eSocialSciences - 2005

, and approximation of systems); development of Asian market; Japan's competitive edge (the advanced country's sophisticated …

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Changing Paradigm of Indo-Japan Relations: Opportunities and Challenges

Rajamohan, PG; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Jacob, Jabin T - eSocialSciences - 2008

This paper presents an overview of Indo-Japan cooperation since late 18th and early 19th century till date. In the … light of the changing paradigm in India-Japan relations over the past several years, including the attempt to build a …

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