Paying for pensions: how important is economic growth?

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This paper analyzes the rising number of the elderly, the increasing cost of their health care, the impacts on their living standards, and policy challenges on the pension and health care obligations to the elderly. Higher output in productivity, allowing the elderly to work, and not indexing pension benefits to productivity are some of the proposed solutions.

Author: Visco, I.
International Affairs, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Organization for Econ Co-op & Dev, Pension & Welfare Benefit Prgrm, Aged, Elderly, Demographic aspects, Pensions, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs

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Volatility spillovers and the role of leading financial centres

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The interaction and integration of financial markets, short and long term movements during, but not the sources of, financial crises, international linkages, stock market volatility and contagion phenomenon are investigated.

Author: Cifarelli, G., Paladino, G.
United States, Europe, Japan, Investigations, Asia, Financial markets, Latin America, Euromarkets, Asian dollar market

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Singapore listings for foreign enterprises

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A massive infusion of money is required for Asia to recover from its current financial crisis, and the Stock Exchange of Singapore will be a leading player in raising that capital.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Singapore, Thailand, Forecasts and trends, Stock-exchange, Exchanges, Influence, Economic development, Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Ltd.

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Subjects list: Statistical Data Included, Reports, Stock exchanges, Securities industry
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