February 2024
12Feb

The Role of AI to Enhance Retirement Savings: The Gender Gap Challenge

By Anabel Martínez Colín AI is the biggest disruptor in the financial sector, where there are many AI solutions at work, and the role of AI over it is well documented. However, the deployment of AI in the pension segment is still at an exploratory stage, and its influence on the gender gap in pensions is still unclear. This research explores the relationship between AI readiness and the gender gap in pensions (GGP), which may also be statistically significant. In addition,...

February 12, 2024
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October 2022
21Oct

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The inclusion and use of data on older people in the humanitarian programme cycle

By HelpAge International Humanitarian principles and basic human rights afford everyone the right to safe and dignified access to assistance and protection on an equal basis. Older people are among those most at risk in humanitarian crises, yet older people’s rights are frequently denied, and they receive little targeted attention from governments, donors, or humanitarian agencies. HelpAge International’s 2018 study, ‘If not now, when?’, highlights significant failings in how the humanitarian system includes older people when responding to crises. A...

October 21, 2022
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May 2021
20May

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology

By Tara Dawson McGuinness, Hana Schank “Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack Obama A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first century As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organizations need new ways to effectively tackle the critical challenges of our time—from pandemics and global warming to social media warfare. In Power to the...

May 20, 2021
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March 2021
02Mar

Seeing the forest for the trees: Why pension funds should take another look at forestry as an asset class

By Fiona Stewart, Samantha Power Pension funds invest our savings over decades, so it is not surprising that they have a long history of investing in forestry assets. Swedish investors can trace the ‘roots’ of forestry investment back to the 13th century. In the modern era, pension funds began investing in forestry about 50 years ago, in the Southern United States. Since then, this modality of investment has expanded across the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Oceania, Europe,...

March 2, 2021
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May 2020
27May

El reto de hacer fácil el ahorro: un experimento en las pequeñas tiendas de México

¿Se puede poner el ahorro para el retiro al nivel de las cosas más rutinarias de nuestra vida, como ir a la farmacia, al supermercado o a la tienda de la esquina a comprar el pan? ¿Cómo se puede adaptar la infraestructura necesaria para el ahorro y facilitar al máximo la creación del hábito de ahorrar? En México, donde solamente uno de cada tres trabajadores está ahorrando para su vejez, una intervención del Laboratorio de Ahorro para el Retiro...

May 27, 2020
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