Pension System Reforms in the Republic of Macedonia: Expected Benefits and Challenges

The Austrian Pension System – How Recent Reforms Have Changed Fiscal Sustainability and Pension Benefits

1 Introduction The twofold demographic challenge – increasing life expectancy and low fertility rates – has put most pension systems under budgetary pressure. Over the last decade this has led to massive requests for reforms throughout Europe. In Austria the sequence of legal changes has been particularly rapid with – overall substantial – pension reforms in 2000, 2003 and 2004. At the same tim...

Pension System Reforms

Three periods of health system reforms in the Republic of Macedonia (1991-2011).

AIM To investigate, describe and classify main health policies and reform activities within the healthcare system undertaken over the past twenty years in R. Macedonia. METHODS Desk research was conducted on scientific literature and relevant documentation (in English and Macedonian) about healthcare reforms. Relevant documents available at the Ministry of Health, Health Insurance Fund, World...

The Effects of Parametric Reforms on Retirees’ Welfare and Financial Sustainability of the Social Security Organization Pension System

Extended Abstract Introduction: The World Bank in its 2017 report on Iran, listed three crises for the Iranian economy: pension funds, water security, and ecology. Pension funds crisis can be addressed in many respects, but what is now referred to, as the main problem of pension funds in Iran, is the large financial deficit in the three pension funds: Civil Servants Pension Fund (CSPO), Armed ...

The Effects of Parametric Reforms on Retirees’ Welfare and Financial Sustainability of the Social Security Organization Pension System

Extended Abstract Introduction: The World Bank in its 2017 report on Iran, listed three crises for the Iranian economy: pension funds, water security, and ecology. Pension funds crisis can be addressed in many respects, but what is now referred to, as the main problem of pension funds in Iran, is the large financial deficit in the three pension funds: Civil Servants Pension Fund (CSPO), Armed ...