irishtimes (05.02.2018) Pension reforms announced with fanfare by Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty will benefit far fewer women than campaigners had originally expected. The changes, announced last month, were designed to take account of the fact that many women had big gaps in their social-insurance contribution records because of time they had taken out of the workforce to raise a family or take care of older relatives. A lot of these women had seen their right to a pension disappear or the payment reduce under a tightening of the rules in September 2012.

 Agencia TSS (23.11.2017) Un informe presentado por un especialista de Naciones Unidas advierte que las reformas laborales que limitan derechos de los trabajadores en escenarios de restricción económica suelen ser ineficaces para generar empleo, contribuyen a una mayor desigualdad y pueden atentar contra el crecimiento de la actividad. Además, sus efectos suelen ser más perjudiciales en las mujeres.

Québec Portal (13.11.2017) The Expert Committee on Guaranteed Minimum Income released its final report, in which it presents 23 recommendations consistent with a global vision of what would be a transformed and enhanced income system. This global vision is based on both a conceptual analysis of the very idea of guaranteed minimum income and an overall diagnosis of Québec's current income support system.

This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. Taking a life-course perspective the report shows how inequalities in education, health, employment and earnings compound, resulting in large differences in lifetime earnings across different groups. It suggests a policy agenda to prevent, mitigate and cope with inequalities along the life course drawing on good practices in OECD countries and emerging economies.

oecd.org (18.10.2017) Younger generations will face greater risks of inequality in old age than current retirees and for generations born since the 1960s, their experience of old age will change dramatically. Moreover, with family sizes falling, higher inequality over working lives and reforms that have cut pension incomes, some groups will face a high risk of poverty, according to a new OECD report.

bloomberg.com (10.08.2017) ' People and nations don't have to accept a future in which a small group of companies -- and, let's face it, successful tech firms are a small, oligopolistic group -- controls the fruits of what they call progress. It's up to them to tax and regulate the monopolies and oligopolies. The opaque digital advertising business, for example, is under-regulated and possibly based on false claims about audience sizes. Killing U.S.

Think-tank says discouraging petrol and diesel vehicles risks creating divisions.

The rush by global policymakers to discourage the use of petrol and diesel cars risks punishing the poorest in society.

Increasingly onerous emissions standards as well as the promotion of ride-sharing and electric cars risks benefiting the wealthy and those in big cities at the expense of the poor and those in rural areas, according to a new report.