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OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs, 1999 • There are benefits from Latin American pension reform, but they have been overestimated. • The approaches taken in second-generation reforms and their still early results hold lessons for OECD and non-OECD countries alike. • A partial shift to funding is feasible and can be financed in different ways; partial funding of pensions can lead to greater ...
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The gender impact of pension reform [PDF]
Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2003 Pension systems may have a different impact on the two genders because women are less likely than men to work in formal labor markets and earn lower wages when they do. Recent multi-pillar pension reforms tighten the link between payroll contributions and benefits, leading critics to argue that they will hurt women.
Estelle James +2 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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The Romanian Pension System Reforms: Evidences from Legislative Roll Call Analysis
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2016 There are important differences between all Eastern European countries regarding the implementation of pension system privatization. The differences regarding the political configuration between the countries from Eastern Europe might be a possible ...
Barbu Claudiu
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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PERSPECTIVE OF PENSION REFORMS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [PDF]
Hum, 2010 Pension system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with two sub-systems organised on entity level, operates in unfavorable macroeconomic conditions, which is being reflected through low number of contributors and high rate of incoming pensioners, to which ...
Nikolina Obradović
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ON THE ISSUE OF THE EFFICIENCY INDICATORS FOR THE PENSION REFORM
Статистика и экономика, 2016 This article describes the indicators of budgetary efficiency of pension reform. The budgetary efficiency is allocated by the analysis of efficiency indicators of the pension reform as a complex of social innovation. It can be represented by three groups
Ivan G. Kamenev
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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Development of an overlapping generations model for the Russian economy for long-term forecasting of the pension system [PDF]
Russian Journal of EconomicsThis paper presents a dynamic overlapping generations general equilibrium model for the Russian economy to assess the economic and fiscal effects of the 2018 pension reform, which raised the statutory retirement age.
Angelina E. Shpilevaya +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE) remains a central concern within UK educational and social policy. It seeks to address the underrepresentation of specific social groups by tailoring university access to their distinct needs.
Sarah McLaughlin, Richard Waller
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