Pensions and ageing populations: the problem explained
Financial Times (28.08.2016) If demographics are destiny, as academics are fond of saying, then large parts of the developed world are facing a challenging fate.
Financial Times (28.08.2016) If demographics are destiny, as academics are fond of saying, then large parts of the developed world are facing a challenging fate.
europa.eu (27.04.2016) A new Flash Report prepared by the European Social policy Network (ESPN) has just become available and provides information on the ambitious French Act on adapting society to an ageing population
Helpage/News (14.04.2016) Older men and women in Zanzibar will have a government-funded universal pension for the first time today (15 April), the first of its kind in east Africa.
Die Zeit (14.04.2016) Das deutsche Rentensystem ist in einer Dauerkrise. Immer weniger Beitragszahler müssen immer mehr Rentner finanzieren – auf Dauer funktioniert das nicht. Viele Menschen fragen sich deshalb: Werde ich im Alter arm sein?
Xinhua (28.02.2016) La Chine établia un plan pour relever l'âge légal de la retraite en 2017, afin de réduire la pression du vieillissement de la population, a déclaré un chercheur officiel.
Europa/News (03.02.2016) Europe's population is getting older. As a consequence of this demographic trend and recent pension reforms that increased the statutory retirement age and curtailed early retirement options, the number of older workers aged 55 and above increased by more than 12 million between 2004 and 2014 in the EU28, bringing their total number to 38 million.
FAZ (04.12.2015) Mit 50 Jahren ist in China das Arbeitsleben oft schon vorbei. Doch weil das Milliardenvolk schnell altert, werden die Rufe nach einem späteren Renteneinstieg immer lauter.
Europa (21.10.2015) The rapid ageing of the EU has put emphasis on the need to extend working lives and has highlighted the importance of the employment and social situation of older people.
ilo.org (28.09.2015) A new ILO study reveals a global shortfall of 13.6 million care workers undermining the delivery of quality services to more than half of the world’s older persons.
US News (21.09.2015) Poland's President Andrzej Duda said Monday he is asking the country's lawmakers to lower the retirement age, in a move that would reverse a recent reform by the government.