India's pension system more sustainable than others: Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index 2017

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Moneycontrol.com (25.10.2017) The index measuring 30 countries and covering 60 percent of the world’s population, has urged countries with unsustainable pension systems to take action now

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india
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Financing
Pensions
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Les inégalités professionnelles femmes-hommes persistent en Europe

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EurActiv (24.10.2017) Au travail, les inégalités entre les femmes et les hommes persistent en Europe, d’après une étude Insee Eurostat  Si les femmes sont plus diplômées que les hommes dans la majorité des pays européens, elles gagnent encore beaucoup moins que leurs collègues masculins et sont plus durement touchées par le chômage.

 

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Europe
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US: Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between

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Bloomberg (23.10.2017) U.S. life expectancy is declining, new calculations show. The U.S. retirement age is rising, as the government pushes it higher and workers stay in careers longer.

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United States
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Population ageing
Demographic change
Old_Global Challenges
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Travail détaché : première victoire européenne pour Emmanuel Macron

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Le Monde (24.10.2017) Les ministres du travail de l’UE se sont accordés sur la révision de la directive de 1996. Un dossier défendu par le président françai  C’est une victoire indéniable pour Emmanuel Macron. Sa première au niveau de l’Union européenne (UE). Les ministres européens du travail et des affaires sociales, réunis à Luxembourg lundi 23 octobre, ont fini par s’accorder sur une révision de la directive de 1996 sur le travail détaché. Une priorité de la présidence française, placée au cœur de sa stratégie réformatrice d’une « Europe qui protège ».

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european union
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Migration

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Addis-Abeba: La Caisse Marocaine des Retraites primée par l'Association Internationale de la Sécurité Sociale

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Atlas info (24.10.2017)  La Caisse Marocaine des Retraites (CMR) a été récompensée par l’Association Internationale de la Sécurité Sociale (AISS) en recevant un certificat d’Excellence et trois certificats de mérite dont un avec mention spéciale, lors du Forum régional de la sécurité sociale pour l’Afrique qui a ouvert ses travaux, lundi, au Centre de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (UNECA), à Addis-Abeba.

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morocco
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Old-age pensions

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Digital Technologies for Government Innovation

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Accenture 2015 - Governments need to drive digital at depth to rebuild public accountability and boost their mission productivity. But that means instigating digital change, not just reacting to it. By becoming digital disruptors themselves, not just adding digital services but digitalizing to transform their operations, governments can seize the initiative from the nimble new entrants invading their traditional turf and greatly enhance their own competitiveness.

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Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Service quality
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Business processes
Service delivery
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International Migration Outlook 2017 - en - OECD

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The International Migration Outlook 2017, the 41st edition of this annual OECD publication, analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries and selected non-member countries. Where relevant, it examines the impact of the recent increase in humanitarian migration. It looks at the evolution of the labour market outcomes of immigrants in OECD countries, with a focus on the medium-term dynamic of employment outcomes and on the implications of structural changes in the labour market.

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Migration

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Towards a Fairer Gig Economy

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2017 - ‘Towards a Fairer Gig Economy’ is a small collection of articles examining the social and economic problems associated with the ‘gig economy’. The gig economy includes a wide range of labour carried out by workers providing services as couriers, taxi drivers, online freelancers and more. Issues examined include an over-supply of labour, falling wages, long hours and poor working conditions.

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Labour market
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Publications – Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE) Strategic Research Network

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The “Development Implications of Digital Economies” (DIODE) strategic network researches the digital economy – that part of economic output derived solely or primarily from digital technologies – and its role in developing countries.

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External impact
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China: Blink and the elderly get their pensions easier

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Chinadaily.com.cn (06.08.2017) A pension revolution has been rolled out to help up to 260,000 retired people in Shenzhen. Traditional fingerprint identification has been replaced by "face recognition technology"

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china
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Pensions
Information and communication technology
Technological transition

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