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Public Pension Reform: A Primer [PDF]
IMF Working Papers, 2007 The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on annuitization and risk-taking in the economy.
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Shaping pension reform in Poland : security through diversity [PDF]
All over the world, pension systems have financing difficulties that need to be addressed. There are three ways of dealing with pension systems problems - finance it to a greater extent from general revenues, rationalize the system, or a full-fledged ...
Gora, Marek +2 more
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What Are Select Committees For?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
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Pension reform in the Dominican Republic [PDF]
Arguably, the most important public policy initiative underway today in the Dominican Republic is the reform of its social security programs. The reform is taking place in the context of an economic crisis that will make a complex implementation process ...
Palacios, Robert J.
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Pension Reform in a Highly Informalized Post-Soviet Economy [PDF]
Pension reform is now on the national agenda in most post-Soviet countries. These countries have highly informalized economies, which means that large areas of economic activity go unreported to the authorities.
Les Mayhew, Anton Dobronogov
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Globalization's challenge to pension reform in Western Europe [PDF]
The following suggests that demographic changes and the creation of a single currency in Europe has compelled greater EU intervention in pension reform.
Pieter Omtzigt, M. Dudek Carolyn
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Pension Reform in Bolivia: A Review of Approach and Experience [PDF]
The paper analyzes the Bolivian experience in switching from an old publicly managed pay-as-you-go pension system to a privately managed, fully funded pension system.Pension reform ...
Osvaldo Nina, Federico Escobar
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