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Popular Attitudes Towards Reforms in the Pension System

Autor: Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Análisis (ISSA)
Año: 2017
Resumen: The respondents are rather critical of the current pension system, inasmuch as they understand it: only 14% believed themselves to be informed. Half of all respondents referred to themselves as not informed. More than half of respondents had no information on the other proposed projects in the reform of the pension system made by the Ministry of Economy and the Trade Union Confederation of Georgia. About 13% of respondents assumed that they are more or less informed, while 30% said they were a little. A majority of those who are not against the accrual pension fund (88%) is relatively positive toward a proposed contribution of 2% from their wages: about 70% agreed.

Fuente: Fundación Friedrich-Ebert (FES)
Clasificación: Reformas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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The Evolution of the Canadian Pension Model: Practical Lessons for Building World-Class Pension Organizations

Autor: Banco Mundial
Año: 2017
Resumen: Canada is home to some of the world's most admired and successful public pension organizations. This was not always the case. As recently as the mid-1980s, many Canadian public pensions were invested largely or entirely in domestic government bonds, were funded primarily on a pay-as-you go basis, lacked independent governance, and were administered in an outdated and error-prone fashion. Over the past three decades, a Canadian model of public pension has emerged that combines independent governance, professional in-house investment management, scale, and extensive geographic and asset-class diversification. This report aims to document the emergence and evolution of this Canadian model, distilling practical lessons for stakeholders in emerging economies working to improve their pension arrangements and retirement systems. Although a growing body of literature exists on the Canadian model of pension organization, this report is unique in two respects: its emphasis on the evolutionary journey of Canadian pension organizations (as opposed to their current state) and its in-depth focus on Canadian pension funds that have received less attention than some of their peers.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Libros
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Summary Note on Pension Reform in Brazil: Why is it Needed and What Will be its Impact?

Autor: Banco Mundial
Año: 2017
Resumen: This short note analyzes the fiscal and distributive impacts of the proposed pension reform currently under discussion in Brazil. It argues that the projected aging of Brazil`s population makes pension reform a necessity to regain the financial sustainability of the public pension system. Further, it analyses the distributional impact of the proposed reform showing that the biggest gains of the current system go to the top three quintiles of the population. Consequently, a reform of the pension system, by reducing the subsidies received by these groups, aside from contributing to its future sustainability would make the public pension system less regressive.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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Arab Pension Systems: Trends, Challenges and Options for Reforms

Autor: Fondo Monetario Árabe, Grupo Banco Mundial
Año: 2017
Resumen: This report provides an overview of current pension challenges and opportunities formembers of the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)1. There is an urgent need to address pensionissues in the region to address fiscal, macroeconomic, sustainability, equity and welfarechallenges. The report sets out potential solutions and proposals that countries could adopt toimprove their pension outcomes. The analysis and the reforms grew out of the high-levelconference: “Arab Pension Reforms,” that took place on January 25th, and 26th, 2017, in AbuDhabi. The conference was co-hosted by the AMF and the World Bank Group (WBG).

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Reformas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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Disability Pensions in the European Union

Autor: Wiener, Mitchell; Jain, Himanshi; Schwarz, Anita; Abel, Miglena
Año: 2017
Resumen: Disability is a complex, evolving and multidimensional concept. According to the World Disability report (2011), disability will be an even greater concern as its prevalence is on the rise due to Ageing Populations as well as the Global increase in chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health disorders. In this paper, the authors look at the basic design features and fiscal costs of the sick pay, sick leave and disability pensions program in each of the Member States of the European Union. As will be seen, it is difficult to draw any policy conclusions or find much in the way of trends in the data. Nevertheless, the authors highlight the heterogeneity in practices across various countries through our analysis, suggest areas for additional analysis or research, and provide suggestions for strengthening disability pension systems in the future. The authors also include case studies for two countries (The Netherlands and Poland) to illustrate the characteristics of recent reforms and lessons learned. For most purposes, in this paper, disability benefits refer to a combination of sick pay, sick leave and disability pensions payable from social insurance programs. This paper is arranged as follows: (ii) Section II of this report discusses the social, financial, and demographic arguments for countries to focus increased attention now on the design, administration and financing of their sick pay, sick leave and disability pension programs; (iii) Section III discusses the basic terminology and issues in disability pensions; and (iv) Section IV reviews the current practices of the EU countries in the areas of disability covered by the report.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Informes
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