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Social Protection for Older Persons: Key Policy Trends
& Statistics – Older Women
This policy paper: (i) provides a global overview of the organization of pension systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social security, in 178 countries; (ii) analyses trends and recent policies, e.g. extension of coverage in a large number of low- and middle-income countries; (iii) presents the negative impacts of fiscal consolidation and adjustment measures in a number of higher-income economies; and (iv) calls for the expansion of social protection in pursuit of crisis recovery, inclusive development and social justice.
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_310211.pdf - 150 Pages, 2014
Executive Summary
1. Social protection for older persons: Ensuring rights, dignity
and income security in later life
2. The crucial role of pensions in ensuring income security and
well-being of older persons
3. Extent of legal pension coverage
4. Extent of effective pension coverage
4.1. Income security in old age: A right still unfulfilled for
many
4.2. Changes in pension coverage across the world: Progress and
regression
4.3. Persistent inequalities in access to income security in old
age
5. The adequacy of pensions to provide genuine income security to
older persons
5.1. Guaranteeing income replacement
5.2. Preventing erosion of the value of pensions over time:
Ensuring regular adjustments
6. Reforming and re-reforming pension systems
7. Fiscal consolidation: implications for the social protection of
older persons
8. Ensuring income security for older persons: The continuing
challenge
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