Essays about: "Old-age Pensions"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Old-age Pensions.
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1. Building Older Persons’ “Resilience” Through Old-Age Pension Schemes in Georgia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Older persons’ rights are increasingly penetrating the Human Rights discourse in response to the surging aging of the world population. Old-age pension schemes are designed to protect older persons against vulnerabilities once they resign from the job market. READ MORE
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2. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
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3. Analysis of Savings Behavior after a Pension Reform from a PAYG to a Fully-Funded System in Asian Emerging Economies
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Pension systems in Asian emerging economies are under great pressure to conduct important reforms in response to declining growth rates and population aging. Our analysis aims to investigate how a shift from a PAYG to a fully funded pension scheme influences household savings. Our analysis is focused on China, Thailand and the Philippines. READ MORE
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4. The Old Age Allowance in Thailand: Wellbeing and self-worth for older people
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : South East Asia, and Thailand in particular, are experiencing rapid population ageing. In Thailand older people are increasing in both proportion of the population and absolute number. Adaptations are needed to support this ageing population and to prevent poverty in old age. READ MORE
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5. Supplementary Old-age Pension Systems
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The ageing population in Europe has created a demographic shift, especially in the number of pension beneficiaries, which has increased inversely proportional compared to the number of economically active individuals. With the aim of minimizing future pension problems within the EU Member States, the occupational pension system was proposed by the European Commission to integrate the internal pension market in the EU. READ MORE
