Environmentally Sustainable Development Agricultural Research and Extension Series: Banana Improvement Project Report No. 1. Presents an overview of current and planned activities in institutions working on the Banana Improvement Project, co-sponsored by the Common Fund for Commodities, the FAO Intergovernmental Group on Bananas, and the World Bank. The project has two important objectives: to develop improved banana varieties suitable for the international market and to improve pest and disease control practices with the object of reducing pesticide use and its harmful environmental impact.
In particular , because politicians will not necessarily follow the reforms through over the whole period , political stability and consensus may be a decisive factor for the transformation of oldage security .
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Since the early 1990s the transition economy countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have had to adapt their pension systems in minor and often very major ways.
This highly topical book focuses on a particularly interesting area of post-1989 social policy. Existing public pension systems in Central-Eastern Europe underwent fundamental change as Latin-American style pension reforms were...
Population aging will affect the performance of pension funds and financial markets in the former transition economies and require determined policy actions to complete financial market development and to promote financial literacy through ...
We might say that, at the very beginning of transformation, old-age security systems in Central and Eastern European countries resembled a combination of the conservativecorporatist and social democratic regime.
This is the first edition of OECD Private Pensions Outlook, a new OECD publication that guides readers through the changing landscape of retirement income provision.
Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design.
Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design.
Volume 1 of this book offers an assessment of countries that were early adopters before addressing key aspects of policy implementation and design review, including how best to combine basic income provisions with an NDC scheme, how to deal ...