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08MarMarch 8, 2019

International Women’s Day: women’s rights on labour wards, pensions, an end to austerity – what we’ll be fighting for in 2019

International Women’s Day 2019, a day celebrating progress and demanding equality, comes after a seismic 12 months. From the growth of #MeToo to Gina Martin’s successful campaign to make upskirting illegal, the power of activism been demonstrated across the world. Meanwhile, a number of campaigns are gathering steam and will be getting louder (and louder) throughout 2019. IWD is marked by celebration, protest and dialogue. It’s a chance to ask each other: where are we? Where do we...

March 8, 2019

News, Slider2019, UK

08MarMarch 8, 2019

China’s pension funds sufficient: official

China's overall income of the pension funds is greater than the expenditure, and the operation of the fund is in good condition, the finance minister said Thursday. "Nationwide, China can ensure that the pension is paid on time and in full," Minister of Finance Liu Kun told a press conference on the sidelines of the annual legislative session. Last year, the income of the corporate pension funds was 3.6 trillion yuan (536 billion U.S. dollars), while total expenditure stood...

March 8, 2019

News, Slider2019, China

07MarMarch 7, 2019

Chile. Piñera enciende el debate en el Congreso con idea de elevar cotización previsional a más de 14%

Sorpresa causó en la mayoría de los diputados de la Comisión de Trabajo, las declaraciones del Presidente Sebastián Piñera respecto a la posibilidad de elevar la cotización previsional más allá del 14% con cargo al empleador que propone el proyecto actual del Ejecutivo. “Si el gobierno se abre a aumentar la cotización debe cumplirse el requisito de que se mantenga la gradualidad de 0,5% por año. El gobierno ha recibido distintas propuestas, y veo que está mostrando flexibilidad pues...

March 7, 2019

Noticias2019, Chile

07MarMarch 7, 2019

IAG gasta 94 millones en igualar a las mujeres con los hombres en las pensiones de British

La mayor referencia del grupo de aerolíneas IAG, la británica British Airways, ha cargado en 2018 al holding con un gasto excepcional de 94 millones de euros relacionado con su plan de pensiones y la obligación de preservar la igualdad de género entre los beneficiarios. British, que cerró su fondo New Airways Pension Scheme (NAPS) a devengos futuros de prestaciones, y clausuró el British Airways Retirement Plan (BARP) a aportaciones desde el 31 de marzo de 2018, abrió un...

March 7, 2019

Noticias

07MarMarch 7, 2019

Nigeria. Pension, Key Component Of Social Security System – PenCom Boss

The Acting Director-General, National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs. Aisha Dahir-Umar has described pension as key component of social security adding that the objectives of pension reform in the country was to reduce old age poverty. Dahir-Umar who made the remark during an interaction with DAILY INDEPENDENT, noted that there were several initiatives embarked upon by governments at all levels to eradicate poverty through gigantic reforms or social security programmes and provide financial support directly to the poor without it...

March 7, 2019

News, Slider2019, Nigeria

07MarMarch 7, 2019

The Impact Of Population Ageing On Monetary Policy – Analysis

Population ageing is likely to affect many areas of life, from pension system sustainability to housing markets. This column shows that monetary policy can be considered another victim. Low fertility rates and increasing life expectancy substantially lower the natural rate of interest. As a consequence, central banks are more likely to hit the lower bound constraint on the nominal interest rate and face long periods of low inflation, especially if they fail to account for the impact of demographic...

March 7, 2019

News, Slider

07MarMarch 7, 2019

UK. PensionBee flags risks of Now Pension fee structure

Fintech consolidator PensionBee has warned of "an unacceptable level of risk" that a large proportion of pots in Now Pensions will be eroded to zero by charges. Last month the master trust, the third biggest in the market, defended its charging model after criticism from Labour MP Steve McCabe. Mr McCabe, a member of the Work and Pensions select committee, said at a hearing in Parliament that Now Pensions had a charging structure where they charged a £1.50 admin...

March 7, 2019

News, Slider2019, UK

07MarMarch 7, 2019

Reversing Pension Privatization

From 1981 to 2014, thirty countries fully or partially privatized their social security public mandatory pensions (figure 1). Fourteen countries were in Latin America: Chile (first to privatize in 1981), Peru (1993), Argentina and Colombia (1994), Uruguay (1996), the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Mexico and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1997), El Salvador (1998), Nicaragua (2000), Costa Rica and Ecuador (2001), Dominican Republic (2003) and Panama (2008). Another fourteen countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union embarked...

March 7, 2019

Articles, Regulation2018, Labor Market, Management, Public Policy, Sustainability

07MarMarch 7, 2019

Geografía de la pobreza y la desigualdad

Por Juan Córdoba Y Ordóñez & José María García Alvarado Los grupos sociales, en competencia con otros, se asientan en un espacio sobre el que delimitan su territorialidad o marco de acción espacial en el que satisfacen sus necesidades. Siendo el espacio por naturaleza diferente, pero no desigual, la desigualdad en el espacio es una cualidad que se infiere de la acción que desarrollan sobre él los grupos sociales. Partiendo de esta premisa, la obra estudia los problemas de desigualdad...

March 7, 2019

Libros, Sostenibilidad del Sistema2019, Ahorro, Ingreso, Inversión

07MarMarch 7, 2019

Mujeres y hombres en la economía informal: Un panorama estadístico.

De OIT En la actualidad, 2000 millones de trabajadores tienen un empleo informal, una situación que afecta al 61,2 por ciento de la población empleada en el mundo. Esta edición proporciona por primera vez una visión comparativa de la magnitud de la economía informal y un panorama estadístico de la informalidad en toda su diversidad a nivel mundial y regional. Para lograr este objetivo, se ha desarrollado un conjunto común de criterios metodológicos para medir el empleo informal y el empleo...

March 7, 2019

Mercado Laboral2018, Inclusión Financiera, Política Pública

March 2019