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  • Rethinking survivor benefits (anglais)

    This paper provides a framework for analyzing the efficiency and equity of survivor benefit programs. These programs were originally designed to support families when the main wage-earner died, in an era...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 52919 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: James,Estelle

  • Disability insurance with pre-funding and private participation : the Chilean model (anglais)

    This paper asserts that the disability insurance system in Chile is much less well-known than the pension part, but it is equally innovative. It differs from traditional public disability insurance in...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 42268 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: James,Estelle,Iglesias-Palau,Augusto A,Cox Edwards,Alejandra C.


  • Annuity markets in comparative perspective : do consumers get their money's wotrth? (anglais)

    Pension reforms normally focus on the accumulation phase, plus term insurance that provides bnefits for the disabled and for dependent survivors, all of which are immediate concerns. Decumulation of the...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2493 Date du document: 30 novembre 2000 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle,Vittas,Dimitri


  • Facing the future : the importance of pension reform to new generations (anglais)

    Encounter with a millennium baby, by Edward Whitehouse. Survivors' guide to pension reform. Facts about Poland. New old-age pension system in Poland, by Marek Gora and Michal Rutkowski. Recipe of success...

    Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 23007 Date du document: 1 janvier 2000 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Whitehouse,Edward R.,Gora,Marek,Rutkowski,Michal J.,Hermansen, Ole. F.,James,Estelle,Lund,Lotte


  • The World Bank Research Observer 13 (2) (anglais)

    Promoting efficient rural financial intermediation, by Jacob Yaron, McDonald Benjamin, and Stephanie Charitonenko. The role of long-term finance : theory and evidence, by Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Asli Demirguc-Kunt...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 18424 Date du document: 31 août 1998 Mode de publication: Auteur: Yaron,Jacob,Benjamin,Mcdonald P.,Charitonenko,Stephanie,Caprio, Gerard, Jr.,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Baffes,John,Meerman,Jacob P.,Alderman,Harold H.,Lindert,Kathy A.,Van De Walle,Dominique,Hoekman,Bernard M.,James,Estelle


  • Pension reform : is there a tradeoff between efficiency and equity? (anglais)

    In the past decade, Latin America has taken the lead in structural pension reform which replaces a publicly managed pay-as-you-go defined-benefit system with a system of privately managed, fully funded...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1767 Date du document: 31 mai 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: James,Estelle

  • New systems for old age security - theory, practice, and empirical evidence (anglais)

    The author summarizes the major findings and recommendations in Averting the Old Age Crisis, describing problems in traditional pension systems and proposals for reform. Then she describes how those reforms...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1766 Date du document: 31 mai 1997 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle

  • Is there a quantity-quality tradeoff as enrollments increase? Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India (anglais)

    Developing countries have been quite successful at expanding school enrollment, especially at lower levels. But for any given level of educational efficiency, increased enrollments require inreased resources...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1768 Date du document: 31 mai 1997 Mode de publication: Auteur: Duraisamy, P.,James,Estelle,Lane,Julia Ingrid,Tan,Jee-Peng

  • Protecting the old and promoting growth : a defense of averting the old age crisis (anglais)

    The current social security systems in many OECD countries were adopted before World War II, when private financial markets were underdeveloped or in disrepute. They expanded sharply in the 1950s and 1960s...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1570 Date du document: 31 janvier 1996 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle

  • Why is there proportionately more enrollment in private schools in some countries? (anglais)

    The proportion of students enrolled in private rather than public schools varies greatly among countries. The author tries to explain (1) the systematically higher proportion of enrollment in private schools...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1069 Date du document: 31 janvier 1993 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle

  • Income security for old age : conceptual background and major issues (anglais)

    A large and growing proportion of the world's population is old; the elderly are often poor; and many countries face huge fiscal burdens because of promises they have made to give their older citizens...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS977 Date du document: 30 septembre 1992 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle

  • Health, government, and the poor : the case for the private sector (anglais)

    The authors present a case for user charges and some privatization of health care in developing countries. They demonstrate that - consistent with public choice theory - government actions in the health...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS938 Date du document: 31 juillet 1992 Mode de publication: Auteur: Birdsall,Nancy M.,James,Estelle

  • Public policies toward private education (anglais)

    This paper surveys the wide range of public policies toward private education that are found in a sample of 35 developed and developing countries. Private schools in developing countries tend to be less...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: EDT84 Date du document: 30 juin 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: James,Estelle

  • The political economy of private education in developed and developing countries (anglais)

    This paper examines the private - public division of responsibility for education across countries at different levels of economic development. The evidence suggests that in most developing countries private...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: EDT81 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle

  • The political economy of private education in developed and developing countries (anglais)

    This paper examines the private - public division of responsibility for education across countries at different levels of economic development. The evidence suggests that in most developing countries private...

    Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: EDT71 Date du document: 31 mai 1987 Mode de publication: Auteur: James,Estelle