Closing the coverage gap :   role of social pensions and other retirement income transfers /  
Robert Holzmann, David A. Robalino, Noriuki Takayama, editors. 
 - Washington, D.C. :   World Bank,   c2009. 
 - xv, 225 p. :   ill. ;   26 cm.  
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index.  
<br/><br/> Overview and preliminary policy guidance / David A. Robalino and Robert Holzmann -- Measuring the coverage gap / Alvaro Forteza, Leonardo Lucchetti, and Montserrat Pallares-Miralles -- Pensions and old-age poverty / Stephen Kidd and Edward Whitehouse -- Rights-based approach to social security coverage expansion / Krzysztof Hagemejer -- Social pensions in low-income countries / Armando Barrientos -- Social pensions in four middle-income countries / Mukul G. Asher -- Social pensions in high-income countries / Mark Pearson and Edward Whitehouse -- Pension coverage in Japan / Noriyuki Takayama -- The role of social pensions in the Republic of Korea / Hyungpyo Moon -- Incentive effects of retirement income transfers / John Piggott, David A. Robalino, and Sergi Jimenez-Martin -- Financing social pensions / Alain Jousten -- Defining eligibility for social pensions : a view from a social assistance perspective / Margaret Grosh and Phillippe G. Leite -- Matching defined contributions : a way to increase pension coverage / Robert Palacious and David A. Robalino -- Administration of social pension programs / Oleksiy Sluchynsky.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821379714 (pbk.) 9780821379806 (e-book) 
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.252 CLO