Closing the Coverage Gap: The Role of Social Pensions and Other Retirement Income Transfers

By: Robert Holzmann

In high-income countries, the percent of the population covered under mandatory old-age pension programs is typically high but often incomplete; in low- and middle-income countries, coverage is low and even stagnant. At the same time, older people are less able to rely on family and community support as a result of growing urbanization and migration. And low-income workers and the poor simply cannot save enough to prepare for their old age. As a response,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821379712
• ISBN13: 9780821379714
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"