Renewed policy-maker interest in the potentialities for interaction between private pensions and accelerated SOE privatisations rarely represents genuinely strategic thinking. Current policy sequencing seems significantly misplaced, most particularly in their focus on the prioritised stimulation...

Non-contributory social security is increasingly attracting the attention of developing country policymakers and observers, not least as a mechanism to help address the perceived failure of contributory social security to reduce poverty in developing countries. This development is most visible...

Global ‘standards’ in social security are set by the UN Specialist Agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ILO ‘Standards’ prioritize one model of social security system in particular; namely, contributions-financed social insurance. Specifically, social insurance...

The International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy explores the challenges arising from the ageing of populations across the globe for government, policy makers, the private sector and civil society. It examines various national state approaches to welfare provisions for older people, and...

Consideration of the social welfare, financial system and institutional implications for DCs of the current, World Bank-led, trend towards systemic old-age pension reforms based on an expanded role for mandatory private provision indicates the desirability of reform alternatives. The wider...

This paper delineates key constraints on the formulation and implementation of old age support in developing countries (DCs), identifying specific institutional and organizational points of 'blockage'. The paper argues that these institutional and procedural constraints collectively underpin the...