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Old-age Pensions (old-age + pension)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	83%

Selected Abstracts

Social security for China's rural aged: a proposal based on a universal non-contributory pension

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE, Issue 2 2010
Yinan Yang
Yang Y, Williamson JB, Shen C. Social security for China's rural aged: a proposal based on a universal non-contributory pension Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 236,245 © 2009 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. China's relative lack of social security coverage for rural elders exacerbates the already severe rural,urban economic disparity, slows the rate of rural poverty reduction, and raises social justice concerns. Our analysis draws on evidence from a number of sources including interviews with experts on China, Chinese government documents, Chinese newspaper accounts, and other sources from other countries. Based on our analysis of what has been tried in other countries and the current situation in rural China, we offer some suggestions for Chinese policy makers. We suggest that, for rural China, a universal non-contributory old-age pension deserves serious consideration, and refer to our proposed model as a Rural Old-Age Social Pension. It will reduce the level of poverty in rural areas and the degree of income inequality between rural and urban areas while simultaneously promoting social and political stability. [source]

Supporting knowledge-intensive work in public administration processes

KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 3 2003
Giorgos Papavassiliou
Knowledge management efforts focus much on the strategic applications of knowledge-related initiatives and not so much on their implications at the level of concrete business processes. On the other hand, business process management efforts have not concentrated on leveraging knowledge. In this paper we attempt to fill that gap by developing a tool for proactive, context-sensitive delivery of knowledge. We focus on the modelling of knowledge-intensive business processes and we develop a framework for modelling this type of processes that explicitly considers knowledge-related tasks and knowledge objects. We present a tool that is an implementation of our theoretical meta-model and realises proactive, context-sensitive delivery of knowledge, integrated with the workflow enactment. As an example, we sketch one case study, the process for granting full old-age pension as it is performed in the Greek Social Security Institution, discussing the benefits derived from applying our tool. Finally, we draw the main conclusions of our work and discuss further research directions. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

At Peace but Insecure The Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Life

IDS BULLETIN, Issue 2 2001
Thomas Lines
Summaries This article examines the forms of insecurity which have developed in the societies of the Commonwealth of Independent States since the USSR broke up in 1991. That huge political upheaval was remarkable for the lack of overt conflict that accompanied it: restricted wars in a few peripheral regions and only isolated episodes of political violence and social unrest elsewhere. Yet most citizens of these twelve countries have seen the manifold security of their lives under the Soviet Union vanish. Exposed often for the first time to crime, they have also lost secure entitlements to employment, housing, education, health care and old-age pensions, as well as cheap utilities and housing. For many people the overriding sense has been one of loss, as even the political security gained with the reduction in repression is compromised by the instability of the USSR's weak successor states. The article examines the paradox of a situation of pervasive human insecurity in a region which so far has remained largely at peace. [source]

Do universal non-contributory old-age pensions make sense for rural areas in low-income countries?

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 4 2006
Jessica K. M. Johnson
The need for old-age security coverage in rural areas of many developing countries is rapidly increasing for several reasons, including population ageing and the weakening of family support networks. These trends have generated intense interest in policies that might help respond to the growing problem of rural old-age destitution. The focus of our analysis is on one of the most promising alternatives under consideration: universal non-contributory old-age pensions. This model has some limitations and it is not appropriate for all developing countries, but it would be of potential benefit to far more than the six that have already implemented variants of this approach. [source]

Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 2 2008
Steven Ruggles
Newly available census microdata from IPUMS-International are used to assess trends in intergenerational coresidence in 15 developing countries. Contrary to expectations, we find no general decline in intergenerational coresidence over the past several decades. There have been, however, significant changes in the configuration of intergenerational coresidence. Families in which a member of the older generation is household head,a configuration consistent with traditional patriarchal forms in which the older generation retains authority,are becoming more common in most of the countries. Intergenerational families headed by a member of the younger generation,the configuration one would expect if intergenerational coresidence were motivated by a need for old-age support,are on the decline in most of the countries. Multivariate analysis reveals that intergenerational families headed by the older generation are positively associated with measures of economic development. These findings are at variance with widely accepted social theory. We hypothesize that housing shortages, economic stress in the younger generation, and old-age pensions may contribute to the change. More broadly, in some developing countries rising incomes may have allowed more people to achieve their preferred family structure of intergenerational coresidence following traditional family forms. [source]