Así es la edad de jubilación en otros países latinoamericanos y europeos

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El Mundo (12.07.2017) El Banco Mundial (BM) recomendó incluir en la propuesta de reforma previsional, elaborada por la Iniciativa Ciudadana para las Pensiones (ICP), un ajuste en la edad de jubilación, es decir, elevar la edad actual de retiro, que en el caso de los hombres es de 60 años y de 55 para las mujeres

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Ireland: Strong support for mandatory pension scheme

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Independent (27.07.2017) A large majority of PAYE taxpayers are in favour of a new automatic pension scheme being introduced for those who have no occupational pension.The survey from tax specialists Taxback.com found that 84pc of people would be in favour of an auto-enrolment type scheme.

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Numérique : 85% des "métiers du futur" n'existeraient pas encore

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La Tribune (18.07.2017) L'Institut pour le futur et Dell ont publié, vendredi, un rapport qui met en lumière les profondes modifications que le passage à l'intelligence numérique cognitive va opérer sur l'économie du futur et sur le monde travail.

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[Report] WHO/Europe: Measuring Efficiency in Health Care

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WHO (July 2017) Eurohealth Observer - Identify the causes of inefficiencies in health systems, The challenges of using cross-national comparisons of efficiency to inform health policy; Eurohealth International – Big data for public health: Does the data promise a better quality of life?, The SELFIE Framework for Integrated Care for Multi-Morbidity, Time to focus on benefits beyond the health sector: the example of health literacy, New draft EU Directive submits the regulation of health professions to a proportionality test; Eurohealth Systems and Policies - New measures to increase the heal

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India: New 8% Pension Scheme, PMVVY, launched

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NDTV (30.07.2017) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has formally launched the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY), or a pension scheme, for senior citizens on Friday. Speaking after the launch of PMVVY, Mr Jaitley said that settlement ratio of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India) is near to the maximum.

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Singapore: Impassioned call for more parental leave,

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Straits Times (01.08.2017) Mr Louis Ng (Nee Soon GRC) yesterday recommended the extension of paid paternity and maternity leave for new parents of premature or multiple babies, as he spoke about his own experience as a father of twin daughters who were born 10 weeks early.
Besides the difficulty of having to care for more than one infant at the same time, parents of multiple babies, such as twins and triplets, often also have to contend with their newborns being hospitalised, he said. Multiple babies are often born premature, before 37 weeks of gestation.

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singapore
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Family benefits
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Deutschland: Sozialbericht: Sozialausgaben steigen auf 918 Milliarden Euro

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Zeit (02.08.2017) Deutschland hat 2016 trotz niedriger Arbeitslosigkeit 918 Milliarden Euro für Sozialausgaben ausgegeben. Die Ausgaben stiegen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 3,7 Prozent und machen mittlerweile 29,3 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts aus, heißt es in dem Sozialbericht 2017 von Sozialministerin Andrea Nahles (SPD). Somit gibt Deutschland fast ein Drittel seiner Wirtschaftsleistung für Sozialtransfers wie Alterssicherung, Sozialhilfe, Kindergeld oder Grundsicherung aus. Vor allem die Pensionen, Renten- und Krankenversicherungen kosten mehr Geld.

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República Dominicana: Seguridad Social crece y se democratiza; más dominicanos tienen acceso a un seguro de salud

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Hoy Digital (01.08.2017) El director ejecutivo del Seguro Nacional de Salud (SeNaSa), Chanel Rosa Chupany, destacó que República Dominicana pasó de ser uno de los países con menos afiliación a la seguridad social en América Latina y El Caribe, a ser el cuarto país de la región con más personas afiliadas a un seguro de salud. Actualmente 72% de los dominicanos están afiliados a un seguro de salud.

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dominican republic
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