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...

One Pager No. 216 ? How to Provide Basic Income Security to all Elderly People? By Krzysztof Hagemejer and Valérie Schmitt, International Labour Organization The Social Protection Floors Recommendation adopted in 2012 urges all countries to establish as quickly as possible and maintain floors...

Presents an overview of developments in the region's social protection systems over the course of the 1990s, with particular stress on problems concerning old-age, disability and survivors' pension provisions.

Provides a picture of social expenditures along a comparitive line. Outlines coverage and adequacy of benefits regarding old age, disability, unemployment, sickness, birth of a child, etc. Includes the poverty rates and dependency ratios as well as the pension contribution rates for eight...