December 2021

Análisis del sector informal y discusiones sobre la regulación del trabajo en plataformas digitales en el Ecuador

Por: Karla Arias Marín, Paul Carrillo Maldonado, Jeaneth Torres Olmedo Este documento fue preparado por Karla Arias Marín, de la Unidad de Estudios del Empleo, División de Desarrollo Económico de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Paul Carrillo Maldonado, del Ecuadorian Political Economy Lab, y Jeaneth Torres Olmedo, del Ecuadorian Political Economy Lab y la Universidad Central del Ecuador, en el marco de las actividades del proyecto de la Cuenta de las Naciones Unidas para el...

Fondo De Pensiones: Modelo Español Y Noruego

Por Asier Gómez Marroquín El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar los principales problemas que presenta el sistema de pensiones vigente en el Estado español para consecutivamente analizar y poner las guías para la implementación de nuevos modelos como es el del fondo soberano noruego. En primer lugar, se realizará un análisis del actual sistema público de pensiones español al mismo tiempo que se irán pormenorizando sus dos principales problemas y cuestionando su viabilidad a corto y largo plazo. Esta...

November 2021

Los sistemas de pensiones en América Latina. Institucionalidad, gasto público y sostenibilidad financiera en tiempos del COVID-19

Por Alberto Arenas de Mesa En América Latina, el bienestar de millones de personas de edad avanzada depende del adecuado funcionamiento de los sistemas de pensiones. Así, la sostenibilidad de los sistemas de pensiones corresponde a uno de los desafíos más relevantes, en particular, en tiempos de pandemia. Por ello, debería prestarse especial atención a los debates de política fiscal, los que están cada vez más vinculados con la sostenibilidad financiera de la protección social. Este documento entrega antecedentes para...

The Future of Jobs Report 2020

By World Economic Forum The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change. It aims to shed light on the pandemic-related disruptions in 2020, contextualized within a longer history of economic cycles and the expected outlook for technology adoption, jobs and skills in the next five years. Get the book here 556 views

October 2021

Global Public Pensions 2020

By OMFIF The inaugural edition of Global Public Pensions, sponsored by Citi and Capital Group, builds on the seven-year track record of OMFIF’s benchmark Global Public Investor annual report and aggregates the portfolios of 100 leading global public pension funds. In total, global public pensions have more than $17tn of assets under management – more than twice as much as sovereign wealth funds, according to OMFIF research. This new report captures 77% of those investable assets. The research reveals that: Public pensions are...

The South African Retirement Reality Report 2020

By 10X Investment Even before Covid-19 and the associated lockdown, many South Africans, including many thousands of pensioners, were in crisis. The global pandemic has magnified many vulnerabilities in our society. It is in this context that 10X Investments launches the third annual report on retirement readiness in South Africa. The inaugural Retirement Reality Report, published in 2018, set out to interrogate the developing retirement crisis and its underlying causes based on the results of our Retirement Reality survey. The report...

September 2021

Social Protection in Lebanon Bridging the Immediate Response With Long- Term Priorities

By Unicef, ILO, & Beyond Since the Beirut Port explosion in August 2020 the social protection debate has been focused on the immediate and short-term response. Building on ongoing efforts for the development of a national social protection strategy for Lebanon, it is important to align the emergency response with medium term priorities and a longer-term vision for the sector. This paper serves to complement the Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF)1. It draws on the findings of various assessments in...

2020 Annual Impact Investor Survey

By Dean Hand, Hannah Dithrich, Sophia Sunderji & Noshin Nova (GIIN Research Team) The 10th edition of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) Annual Impact Investor Survey reflects insights from 294 respondents that collectively manage USD 404 billion of impact investing assets. Respondents shared their investment activity for the year ending 2019 and their plans for 2020, their reflections on developments over the past decade, and their views of future challenges facing the market. The report also includes longitudinal analysis...

August 2021

Índice Mundial de Pensiones de Mercer y el CFA Institute

Por Mercer & CFA Insititute Resulta fundamental garantizar la seguridad financiera de los individuos y las sociedades durante la jubilación, ya que la mayoría de los países se enfrentan actualmente a los efectos sociales, económicos y financieros del envejecimiento de la población. En 2020, estas cuestiones se han acentuado debido al COVID-19; sin embargo, no solo la pandemia y el envejecimiento de la población representan retos para los sistemas de pensiones de todo el mundo. El entorno económico actual, con...

Social Security Wealth, Inequality, and Life-cycle Saving: An Update

By John Sabelhaus, & Alice Henriques Volz Social Security wealth (SSW) is the present value of future benefits an individual will receive less the present value of future taxes they will pay. When an individual enters the labor force, they generally face a lifetime of taxes to pay before they will receive any benefits and, thus, their initial SSW is generally low or negative. As an individual works and pays into the system their SSW grows and generally peaks somewhere...