October 2026

Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Tajikistan: A Country Diagnostic Study

By Asian Development Bank Highlighting Tajikistan’s success in cutting poverty and driving strong economic growth, it explains how its economy continues to rely on public investment, low-productivity industries, and narrow commodity exports. Noting the country’s growing youth population, it shows that investing in a modern skills system, incentivizing private sector investment, improving the business environment, and overhauling pensions can help Tajikistan build a reform agenda that targets diversification, productivity growth, and an inclusive future. Get the report here

Retirement Security in the US Is Stuck in the Past

By Catherine Thurtle Open a retirement statement today, and the numbers look a little better than in 2020. Open the news, and the ground looks a lot less steady. That gap sums up where retirement security stands in 2026. Fewer than six in 10 US residents (59%) agree they’re currently building, or have already built, a big enough retirement nest egg. That’s according to Life and Money: Retirement Security in the USA, new research fielded by The Harris Poll on behalf...

Can Voluntary Health Insurance Ease the Burden on Public Healthcare? Theory and Evidence from Europe

By Clara Andresciani, Debora Di Gioacchino & Laura Sabani This paper revisits the “decongestion effect” argument, according to which greater reliance on privately financed healthcare relieves pressure on public services. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which individuals, who differ in income, may purchase tax-deductible private health insurance, thereby gaining access to private care and reducing their demand for public healthcare. The model predicts that, as more individuals opt for private care, both political support and fiscal resources for...

September 2026

Population Aging and Fiscal Sustainability in Resource-Rich Economies: The Case of Chile

By Juan Medina, Michael Pedersen & Gerardo Reyes Emerging economies face long-run fiscal sustainability challenges associated with demographic change and the productive capacity of commodity sectors. Population aging can weaken labor supply growth, constrain tax bases, and increase age-related public expenditures, while declining productivity in non-renewable sectors may further limit fiscal capacity and economic growth. This paper develops a semi-structural macro-fiscal model to analyze the long-term implications of population aging for economic growth, fiscal sustainability, and public debt dynamics in...

Pensions 2050: Evidence and future priorities

By Jack Jones The second Pension Commission’s interim report provides a clear and urgent call to action. It describes a system in which, although participation rates in workplace pensions have doubled due to auto-enrolment, up to 19 million working age people are not on track to meet the retirement income targets set by the first Pension Commission. The triple locked flat-rate State Pension provides a firm foundation on which retirement incomes are built, and auto-enrolment has more than doubled the numbers...

August 2026

Measuring the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Pensions

By National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems When budgets tighten and the economy falters, some states and localities have reacted to worries about pension funding ratios and unfunded liabilities by increasing employee contributions and cutting benefits. Some have even closed pension plans to new hires. Yet public pensions have a strong record of delivering retirement security efficiently: NCPERS’ 2025 update of its landmark economic impact study finds that public pensions generated $2.9 trillion in economic output and $661.9 billion in...

Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: Midyear 2026

By Tim Connor, Rex Barker, Timothy Herman & Nina Lantz The results in this study were derived from publicly available IRS Form 5500 data filed through June 2026 for all multiemployer DB plans, numbering around 1,200 plans. Data for a limited number of plans that clearly were erroneous was modified to ensure that the results were reasonable and a sufficiently complete representation of the multiemployer universe. Such adjustments were associated with an immaterial number of plans. Liability amounts were based on...

Being single in retirement – a key issue for the Pensions Commission?

By LCP The paper considers whether pensions policy is keeping pace with these changes and explores different approaches for the Pensions Commission to consider. These include strengthening pension saving for lower-earning partners, reviewing pension-sharing arrangements following the breakdown of cohabiting relationships, assessing the impact of no-fault divorce reforms, and exploring whether joint-life annuities should become the default. Get the report here

State of Pensions 2026: 7th Annual Edition

By Equable Institute State of Pensions is Equable Institute’s annual report on the status of statewide public pension systems, put into a historic context. Governments face a wide range of challenges in general – and some of the largest are growing, and often unpredictable, pension costs. State of Pensions analyzes trends in public pension funding, investments, contributions, cash flows, and benefits for 253 of the largest statewide and municipal retirement systems in all 50 states to illuminate the scale and...

June 2026

The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth – Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

By Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth (Addendum to report A/HRC/62/42) provides advice to States on the eradication of extreme poverty in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The Roadmap aims to assist States in implementing the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, adopted by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/11 and which the General Assembly welcomed in its resolution 67/164 of 20 December 2012. The Roadmap...