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Title

Closing the coverage gap : role of social pensions and other retirement income transfers / Robert Holzmann, David A. Robalino, Noriuki Takayama, editors.

Publication

Washington, DC : World Bank, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Holzmann, Robert
• Robalino, David A.
• Takayama, Noriyuki, 1946-

Description

xv, 225 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Old age pensions > Government policy
• Retirement income > Government policy
• Social security

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Overview and preliminary policy guidance / David A. Robalino and Robert Holzmann -- Measuring the coverage gap / Alvaro Forteza, Leonardo Lucchetti, and Montserrat Pallares-Miralles -- Pensions and old-age poverty / Stephen Kidd and Edward Whitehouse -- Rights-based approach to social security coverage expansion / Krzysztof Hagemejer -- Social pensions in low-income countries / Armando Barrientos -- Social pensions in four middle-income countries / Mukul G. Asher -- Social pensions in high-income countries / Mark Pearson and Edward Whitehouse -- Pension coverage in Japan / Noriyuki Takayama -- The role of social pensions in the Republic of Korea / Hyungpyo Moon -- Incentive effects of retirement income transfers / John Piggott, David A. Robalino, and Sergi Jimenez-Martin -- Financing social pensions / Alain Jousten -- Defining eligibility for social pensions : a view from a social assistance perspective / Margaret Grosh and Phillippe G. Leite -- Matching defined contributions : a way to increase pension coverage / Robert Palacious and David A. Robalino -- Administration of social pension programs / Oleksiy Sluchynsky.

ISBN

• 9780821379714 (alk. paper)
• 0821379712 (alk. paper)
• 9780821379806 (electronic bk.)
• 0821379801 (electronic bk.)

LCCN

^^2009015188

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Harvard Library