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Pensions panorama — retirement-income systems in 53 countries
Author(s)	Edward Whitehouse
Corporate Author	World Bank; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD
Publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007
Pages	234 pp
Source	The Stationery Office, PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN.
Keywords	Pensions ; Income [older people] ; Social policy ; Comparison ; International.
Annotation	The future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and the means to combat old-age poverty are the issues of interest in this report, summed up as "social sustainability". Part 1 is a cross-country analysis: which countries have which types of pension schemes; the parameters and rules of different parts of the retirement-income system; the methodology and assumptions for modelling pension entitlement; future pension entitlements for today's workers; and the link between pensions and earnings. Part 2 comprises studies of the 53 countries by region: high-income OECD countries; Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; and the Middle East and North Africa. Each country profile outlines qualifying conditions, the benefit calculation rules, and the treatment of pensioners under the personal income tax and social security contributions. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-070403003 B
Classmark	JJ: JF: TM2: 48: 72
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