Income maintenance in old ageCurrent status and future prospects for rich countries

Income maintenance in old age

Current status and future prospects for rich countries

Smeeding

Timothy

Smeeding, Timothy

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Chestnut Hill, Mass. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College20022002monographic

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

2002

monographic

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eng

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The purpose of this paper is to review the recent evidence on the antipoverty effectiveness and other characteristics of income maintenance for the elderly in the rich nations of the world. As they move toward Social Security reform due to worldwide population aging, strategies to reduce the future Social Security deficit in most nations examined here need to take into account the way that impending program changes affect poverty and benefit adequacy, as well as fiscal soundness. Different nations offer various approaches which would help the high elderly poverty nations to achieve lower poverty rates while also providing fiscally responsible solutions to the future public costs of an aging society.

Timothy Smeeding.

CRR WP2002-11

CRR WP

2002-11

http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Working_Papers/wp_2002-11.pdf

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