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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in IndiaWhether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household’s labour supply is of considerable policy interest...
Childcare Employment Income effectWorking Paper
Exploring options for a universal old age pension in Tanzania MainlandThe provision of a universal old age pension is increasingly recognized as an important instrument for strengthening and extending social protection...
Microsimulation Old age Public pensionsJournal Article
The Intergenerational Impact of China's New Rural Pension SchemePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
China Intergenerational Mobility PensionsJournal Article
Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Identity Legal empowerment WelfareWorking Paper
Smoothing or strengthening the ‘Great Gatsby curve’?: The intergenerational impact of China’s New Rural Pension SchemeWe examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth dependence using a nationally representative longitudinal household survey covering the period 2011–13...
China Intergenerational Mobility PensionsWorking Paper
Government intervention need for social security improvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A theoretical analysis using the principal–agent modelAfrican populations need better support through social protection mechanisms...
Social security Pensions ContractsWorking Paper
Formalizing safety nets and the requirements to obtain them: An increased role for identity documents in the Global SouthHaving a birth certificate is a stepping stone to acquiring an array of rights and benefits, including other documents necessary to navigate in and outside of one’s home country...
Pensions Transfer paymentsBlog
Standards, Codes and Pension Flows
by Helmut Reisen The case for mutual benefits arising from the global diversification of portfolios holds well for funded retirement savings...
Accounting Financial institutions Institutional economicsBook
Finance and the Real Economy: Issues and Case Studies in Developing CountriesThe present volume contains six papers on financial-policy issues and country experiences, presented at a joint ECLAC/UNU-WIDER/UNCTAD seminar held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, on 5-6 October 1992...
Banking Finance PensionsBook Chapter
Pension System Reforms and Savings in Latin America and Caribbean Countries with Special Reference to ChileFrom the book: Finance and the Real Economy
Banking Finance PensionsBook
Social Security in Developing CountriesThe term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation...
Pensions Public welfare Social security