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