Rapid population ageing and economic transformation in Asia raise the policy challenge of ensuring income security in old age. There is growing interest among policymakers in the potential role of noncontributory transfers as an instrument to address a variety of policy challenges, including old...

The Personal Pension Scheme (PPS) introduced in Chile in 1981 has acquired a paradigmatic role for pension reforms in developing countries. In contrast to the significant gender gap in private pension coverage observed in other countries, in Chile women's participation in the PPS is marginally...