This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using datasets collected specifically for the purpose, the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a measurable and significant...

This paper contributes to the ESF Forward Look project “Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe” by providing an overview of policy questions and research literature on the adequacy of saving for old age in European countries. Given the current status and practices, the paper describes remaining knowledge gaps and the requirements in terms of research infrastructures, data, and methodologies to f...

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state Comptroller Arthur Levitt has indicated that a bill grantIn j supplemental pensions to retired members of the New Yorlc State Employees' Retirement System will be introduced at the coming Session of the State Legislature. Speaking at •he annual legislative conference of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, In New York last week, Mr. Levitt said: "You are all aware as I that inflatio...

This paper investigates the role of basic pensions in alleviating poverty in subSaharan Africa. Using the most recent Senegalese household income-expenditure data survey, we construct scenarios of universal and means-tested basic pension schemes with different generosity levels. Simulations indicate that basic pension benefits have sizeable impact on poverty reduction amongst households, with e...

We are grateful to the Office for Manpower Economics for funding for this project and to the Economic and Social Research Council for co-funding through the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS (M544285003). The authors also thank Paul Johnson, David Miner, Steve Palmer, and Grant Whitfield for useful advice and assistance, and the Economic and Social Research Coun...

Retirement policies often seek to set minimum pensions at levels that enable single and married pensioners to have the same standard of living. The existing literature on consumer equivalence scales provides little assistance in reaching this policy objective, as the estimated scales are both imprecise and reliant upon strong and opaque assumptions. This paper proposes an alternative modelling ...

had their second child expected on t,he average to have 3 children when their families are completed; those who had had a fourth child expected 4.6 children. While these expectations are somewhat, lower than those found among white Detroit area women at comparable parities, there is serious question as to whether they are realistic. Attitudes and use of birth control among the Negro sample lend...

The following clauses from the " Memorandum regarding the position of medical officers to be appointed to H. M.'s Indian Forces " makes this clear. " The claims to pension of widows and families of medical officers shall be treated under the provisions of such Royal Warrant regulating the grant of pensions to the widows and families of British officers as may be in force at the time being. "The...