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1 online resource (246 pages)
ISBN:
9780821379806
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9780821379714
Content:
Closing the Coverage Gap discusses how social pensions and other retirement income transfers can be used to close the coverage gap of mandatory pension systems. The book is organized in three parts. The first part makes the case for these programs by assessing the extent of the coverage gap around the world and evaluating the vulnerability to poverty of the elderly. The second part reviews the experiences of low, middle and high income countries with the design and implementation of retirement income transfers. The last part focuses on design issues. It analyses the incentive effect of these programs on labor supply and savings, fiscal costs, the role of targeting mechanisms, and alternatives in terms of institutional design and administration. The book also discusses the role of promising instruments such as matching contributions to reach parts of the informal sector.
Content:
Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Overview and Preliminary Policy Guidance -- 2. Measuring the Coverage Gap -- 3. Pensions and Old-Age Poverty -- 4. Rights-Based Approach to Social Security Coverage Expansion -- 5. Social Pensions in Low-Income Countries -- 6. Social Pensions in Four Middle-Income Countries -- 7. Social Pensions in High-Income Countries -- 8. Pension Coverage in Japan -- 9. The Role of Social Pensions in the Republic of Korea -- 10. Incentive Effects of Retirement Income Transfers -- 11. Financing Social Pensions -- 12. Defining Eligibility for Social Pensions: A View from a Social Assistance Perspective -- 13. Matching Defined Contributions: A Way to Increase Pension Coverage -- 14. Administration of Social Pension Programs -- Index -- Boxes -- 2.1 Expansion of social security coverage for the elderly in the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, and Bolivia -- 12.1 Universalism versus targeting for social pensions -- 12.2 Proxy means tests -- 12.3 Summary of data sources, definitions, and methods -- Figures -- 1.1 Taxonomy of retirement income transfers -- 1.2 Share of the elderly living with their children -- 1.3 Minimum pensions in middle-and low-income countries -- 1.4 Benefits and coverage of social pensions in middle-and low-income economies -- 2.1 Coverage as measured by active members of mandatory pension systems as share of labor force, worldwide, early 2000s -- 2.2 Relationship between coverage of the active population and GDP per capita, selected countries, early 2000s -- 2.3 Coverage rates of the economically active population, Latin America, 1990s and early 2000s -- 2.4 Relationship between elderly coverage and GDP per capita, selected countries, early 2000s -- 2.5 Social pensions as share of per capita GDP, early 2000s.
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Overview and Preliminary Policy Guidance; Figures; 2. Measuring the Coverage Gap; Boxes; 3. Pensions and Old-Age Poverty; 4. Rights-Based Approach to Social Security Coverage Expansion; Tables; 5. Social Pensions in Low-Income Countries; 6. Social Pensions in Four Middle-Income Countries; 7. Social Pensions in High-Income Countries; 8. Pension Coverage in Japan; 9. The Role of Social Pensions in the Republic of Korea; 10. Incentive Effects of Retirement Income Transfers; 11. Financing Social Pensions
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12. Defining Eligibility for Social Pensions: A View from a Social Assistance Perspective13. Matching Defined Contributions: A Way to Increase Pension Coverage; 14. Administration of Social Pension Programs; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821379714
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821379714
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sozialrente
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Mindestrente
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Altersversorgung
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Sozialpolitik
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Internationaler Vergleich
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Author information:
Holzmann, Robert 1949-
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