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20MarMarch 20, 2026

Mexico, how are we doing on retirement savings?

By México, ¿cómo vamos? Mexico is a country where half of the population is under 35 years old, 8 out of 10 people use the internet, and almost all of them connect through their cell phones. It's no surprise that the use of digital accounts has tripled in the last three years, opening up unprecedented potential for savings within the financial system. However, 54-5% of the employed population works in the informal sector, without access to social security or automatic...

March 20, 2026

Books, Books, Reports, System Characterization2025, Adequacy, Coverage, System sustainability

18MarMarch 18, 2026

HelaGo Partners with Social Security Board to Launch Pension Scheme for Sri Lanka’s Taxi Drivers

HelaGo, Sri Lanka’s emerging ride-hailing platform, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sri Lanka Social Security Board to introduce a government-backed pension scheme for taxi drivers, marking a significant step toward improving the long-term financial security of gig economy workers in the country. The initiative seeks to address a long-standing structural gap faced by taxi drivers, who, despite earning a livelihood during their active working years, have historically lacked access to formal retirement benefits such as...

March 18, 2026

NewsCoverage, Informal Sector, Sri Lanka

17MarMarch 17, 2026

UGM Expert Warns Pension Coverage in Indonesia Remains Limited

The Ministry of Finance projects that around 100 million Indonesians may face retirement without pension savings by 2038. This condition is considered a serious alarm for the national labor system. Several factors contribute to the public’s lack of pension savings: most people set aside only about 3 percent of their income, whereas financial security standards recommend at least 10 percent. Meanwhile, the current pension security scheme still has limited coverage, particularly for the informal sector. As a result, many people...

March 17, 2026

NewsCoverage, Indonesia, Informal Sector

13MarMarch 13, 2026

Why Social Security Is Essential to Measuring Wealth Inequality

By Knowledge at Wharton Staff In this Q&A, professor Sylvain Catherine discusses why including Social Security fundamentally changes how we measure wealth inequality. His paper “Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality” was co-authored by Max Miller and Natasha Sarin and recently won the Dimensional Fund Advisors First Prize from the American Finance Association. The paper was previously awarded the Marshall Blume Prize in Financial Research from Wharton’s Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, given annually to the best...

March 13, 2026

Articles, System Characterization2026, Coverage, Equality, Social Security, System sustainability, US

12MarMarch 12, 2026

Nigeria. PenCom targets one million informal women for pension

The National Pension Commission has officially launched an ambitious drive to enrol one million women into the Personal Pension Plan, marking a significant shift in its strategy to extend financial security to Nigeria’s vast informal sector. The initiative was unveiled by the Director-General of PenCom, Ms Omolola Oloworaran, during an outreach campaign held to commemorate International Women’s Day on Tuesday in Lagos. Speaking to market women and entrepreneurs at Mile 12 Market in Lagos, she highlighted the urgent need to bridge...

March 12, 2026

NewsCoverage, Gender Gap, Nigeria

24FebFebruary 24, 2026

Nigeria. Fighting poverty in retirement: The role of pensions for informal workers in Nigeria

In Nigeria, the word “pension” evokes different reactions. For many civil servants and corporate workers, it symbolises hope for a near-comfortable retirement. However, for the majority of Nigerians working in the informal sector, it represents a bleak future. These are the market traders, motorcycle riders, small-scale farmers, artisans, and workers in countless micro and nano-scale businesses. With approximately 90% of Nigeria’s workforce operating outside the formal economy, pension coverage for informal workers is almost non-existent. Believe me, this has...

February 24, 2026

NewsCoverage, Nigeria, Poverty

20FebFebruary 20, 2026

How Incentives Can Boost Pensions for Informal Sector Workers

By Coller Pensions Institute his summary report offers a snapshot of the findings in the full paper: ‘How incentives can boost pensions for informal workers’ - prepared by the Coller Pensions Institute and D3P Global. It highlights the financial and demographic factors driving the urgent need for policymakers to increase the participation rates of informal workers in pension systems, and summarises key findings from the full paper’s review of pension programmes targeting informal sector workers in 11 emerging markets and...

February 20, 2026

Books, Books, Labor Market, Reports2026, Coverage, Informal Sector

30JanJanuary 30, 2026

India. NPS drives pension expansion, but coverage remains limited amid informality: Economic Survey 2025-26

India’s pension system has expanded steadily over the past decade, but overall coverage remains limited when measured against the size of the country’s vast workforce, the Economic Survey 2025-26 has said. While participation in formal retirement savings schemes is rising, the Survey flags high informality, irregular incomes and low awareness as the biggest structural constraints preventing broad-based pension inclusion, especially among low-income and rural households. According to the Survey, the dominance of informal employment continues to shape the contours of...

January 30, 2026

NewsCoverage, India, Informal Sector

23JanJanuary 23, 2026

Social Protection for Informal Workers

By Abhijeet U Pai The modern working relationships require the law to recognise non-standard forms of employment and address the lack of traditional employment benefits like social protection for them. Informal employment is seen as a job-based (based on nature of job rather than status of the enterprise) concept that cuts across different sectors of economic activity and thus is defined as ‘informal economy’ rather than ‘informal sector’, in terms of employment relationship and protections associated with the job of the...

January 23, 2026

Articles, System Characterization2025, Coverage, India, Informal workers, Social Protection

22JanJanuary 22, 2026

Nigeria. ‘Only 215,914 informal workers enrolled in personal pensions as 92m remain uncovered’

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has disclosed that just 215,914 Nigerians in the informal sector are enrolled in the Personal Pension Plan (PPP), leaving about 91.88 million workers without any form of pension cover out of an estimated 92.1 million informal-sector workforce. The pension regulator, in its third-quarter 2025 report, said the figures highlight the enormous untapped potential within the informal sector and underscore the need for a more deliberate and coordinated industry-wide strategy to deepen micro-pension adoption. PenCom noted that...

January 22, 2026

NewsCoverage, Informal Sector, Nigeria

March 2026

Mexico, how are we doing on retirement savings?

HelaGo Partners with Social Security Board to Launch Pension Scheme for Sri Lanka’s Taxi Drivers

UGM Expert Warns Pension Coverage in Indonesia Remains Limited

Nigeria. PenCom targets one million informal women for pension

February 2026

Nigeria. Fighting poverty in retirement: The role of pensions for informal workers in Nigeria

How Incentives Can Boost Pensions for Informal Sector Workers

January 2026

India. NPS drives pension expansion, but coverage remains limited amid informality: Economic Survey 2025-26

Nigeria. ‘Only 215,914 informal workers enrolled in personal pensions as 92m remain uncovered’