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27AprApril 27, 2022

Homeless Population Aging in Japan

The proportion of homeless people aged 70 or over in the total homeless population in Japan surged to 34.4 pct in 2021 from 19.7 pct in 2016, a welfare ministry survey has found. The survey on people without housing, held about every five years, also showed that the average age of homeless people rose by 2.1 years to 63.6 years. In the survey, conducted in November 2021, homeless people in Tokyo's 23 special wards, ordinance-designated major cities and other cities were...

April 27, 2022

News2022, Aging, Japan, Social Protection

US. America's Senior Homeless Population is Growing as More Retire on Streets

11AprApril 11, 2022

US. Senior Homeless Population is Growing as More Retire on Streets

Karla Finocchio's slide into homelessness began when she split with her partner of 18 years and temporarily moved in with a cousin. The 55-year-old planned to use her $800-a-month disability check to get an apartment after back surgery. But she soon was sleeping in her old pickup protected by her German Shepherd mix Scrappy, unable to afford housing in Phoenix, where median monthly rents soared 33% during the coronavirus pandemic to over $1,220 for a one-bedroom, according to ApartmentList.com. Finocchio is...

April 11, 2022

News2022, Aging, Social Protection, US

31MarMarch 31, 2022

Fiscal Challenges and Inclusive Growth in Ageing Societies. OECD Economic Policy Paper

By OECD This paper was prepared in support of Japan’s G20 Presidency. It takes stock of ongoing and projected population ageing across G20 economies and its far-reaching implications for economic growth, productivity, inequality within and between generations and the sustainability of public finances. Rising old-age dependency ratios will put the financing of adequate pensions, health and long-term care under high pressure. The paper provides recommendations on policy responses to address ageing-related challenges and highlights good practices. A comprehensive approach is needed,...

March 31, 2022

Aging, Books2019, Public Pensions, Social Protection, Social Security

25MarMarch 25, 2022

Pensions and the green transition: policy and political issues at stake

By David Natali, Michele Raitano & Giulia Valenti Pension policy has gone through an intense period of reform over the past few decades. However, further changes are likely to take place in the near future. Major global trends, not only population ageing but also globalisation, technological innovation and climate change, are going to shape socioeconomic and labour organisation and influence macroeconomic trends and will thus have an impact on the adequacy and long-term sustainability of pension policy. This paper focuses...

March 25, 2022

Articles, Investment2022, Climate crisis, ESG, EU, Social Protection

03MarMarch 3, 2022

War and Pensions

By John A. Turner, David M. Rajnes & Gerard Hughes Although war has had substantial effects, both positive and negative, on pension systems, the topic has received relatively little attention. War has played a role in the development of pension systems in many countries. Yet, no previous analysis has examined the full range of its effects. Source: Actuaries.org 398 views

March 3, 2022

Articles, System Characterization, System Sustainability2016, Political economy, Social Protection

03MarMarch 3, 2022

War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict 2009th Edición

By F. Cocozzelli & Paul S. Chung War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict addresses the issues of rebuilding social assistance and pension programs in the wake of war. Arguing that post-conflict reconstruction missions need to pay greater attention to comprehensive social policy formation, the book makes normative and functional claims that social welfare programs articulate the core aspects of citizenship. War and Social Welfare uses the case of Kosovo to examine the interaction of international and local political actors...

March 3, 2022

Books, System Sustainability2010, Political economy, Social Protection

24FebFebruary 24, 2022

AI for social protection: Mind the people

The technology that allowed passengers to ride elevators without an operator was tested and ready for deployment in the 1890s. But it was only after the elevator operators’ strike of 1946—which cost New York City $100 million—that automated elevators started to get installed. It took more than 50 years to persuade people that they were as safe and as convenient as those operated by humans. The promise of radical changes from new technologies has often overshadowed the human factor...

February 24, 2022

News, Slider2022, Innovation, Social Protection, Technology

11FebFebruary 11, 2022

The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

By Martha Che & Françoise Carré This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority of the workforce in developing countries work in the informal economy, and in countries around the world new forms of informal employment are emerging. Yet the informal workforce...

February 11, 2022

Books, Labor Market2020, Income, Informal Sector, Social Protection

07FebFebruary 7, 2022

The Silver Economy Gets a Covid Reality Check

French care-home operator Orpea was once a bet on better retirement. In an aging society, demand for long-term care would only rise — and so would demand for long-term returns, hence why Canada’s top pension fund bought a 15% stake in 2013. It was going to be the virtuous circle of the “silver economy” in action — retirement as an asset class. The virtuous circle now looks like a vicious one. After years of growth, some 3.4 billion euros ($3.9 billion) has been wiped...

February 7, 2022

News2022, Aging, COVID-19, France, Income, Social Protection

26JanJanuary 26, 2022

Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection

By María del Carmen Boado-Penas, Julia Eisenberg & Şule Şahin This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-sharing in the presence of low probability events, group testing, compositional data analysis for detecting data...

January 26, 2022

Books2022, COVID-19, Public Policy, Social Protection

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