pension reform
description: changes made to pension systems to ensure long-term sustainability or improved benefits
74 results
The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News,in Politics, and inLife
by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot · 26 Dec 2008 · 219pp · 65,532 words
media. When, amid fears of a pension crisis, the British government- appointed Turner Commission published a preliminary report in 2005 on the dry business of pension reform, it said 40 percent of the population was heading for “inadequate” provision in retirement. With luck, your definitional muscles will now be flexing: what do
Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles
by Michael Gross · 1 Nov 2011 · 613pp · 200,826 words
by Robert De Niro in the Scorsese movie). Next, the Labor Department piled on, asking whether the Teamster loans to Glick violated a brand-new pension reform law implemented to curb abuses like those that had already plagued Beverly Ridge. Then, Nevada charged Glick with failing to report loans to his casinos
The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money
by Steven Drobny · 18 Mar 2010 · 537pp · 144,318 words
box on page 7). The shortfall associated with underfunded pensions can be made up by either investment performance or pension reform (i.e., changing the structure of the pension in some way). Yet pension reform amounts to fiscal tightening at a time when the global economy is weak and personal budgets are stretched. At
Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now
by Guy Standing · 19 Mar 2020
be unaffordable without a big rise in direct taxes. These calculations assume that basic income from the outset would replace all existing benefits. However, like pension reform and other changes to the social protection system, basic income could be introduced gradually. There would still be savings from a reduction in meanstested benefit
Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis
by Kevin Mellyn · 30 Sep 2009 · 225pp · 11,355 words
assets under professional management. Some of this merely reflects demography as the Baby Boomers began to accumulate wealth. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) pension reforms of 1974 and the implementation of tax The Natural History of Financial Folly deferred personal pension plans, 401(k)s, in 1981 were key factors
Discover Greece Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
recent years, a series of massive general strikes and blockades highlighted mounting electoral discontent. Hundreds of thousands of people protested against proposed radical labour and pension reforms and privatisation plans that analysts claim would help curb public debt. The backlash against the government reached boiling point in December 2008, when urban rioting
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika · 12 May 2015 · 389pp · 87,758 words
age. But, as the OECD noted, this is just “running to stand still,” because life expectancy is rising. The United Kingdom’s Turner commission on pension reform has suggested that the state pension age should be increased to seventy years.45 Faced with the lengthening retirement periods of their former employees, the
How the City Really Works: The Definitive Guide to Money and Investing in London's Square Mile
by Alexander Davidson · 1 Apr 2008 · 368pp · 32,950 words
in 2005, and how insurers have started to tap capital markets for extra reinsurance capacity. In personal finance, we will take a critical look at pension reform, and controversies related to sales of payment protection insurance. We look at current thinking on mortgages. Elsewhere, we compare types of pooled investment. Since the
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. You are free to contract back in. State pension package The Pensions Act 2007, which received Royal Assent in July 2007, is mainly about state pension reform. It has three strands. People will receive the state pension later than before. This will be on a phased basis. In 2024–26, they will
Greece
by Korina Miller · 1 Mar 2010
, a series of massive general strikes and blockades have highlighted mounting electoral discontent. Hundreds of thousands of people have protested against proposed radical labour and pension reforms and privatisation plans that analysts claim will help curb public debt. The backlash against the government reached boiling point in December 2008, when urban rioting
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
by Helaine Olen · 27 Dec 2012 · 375pp · 105,067 words
it would be a very smart political and policy move by those who want to keep defined-benefit public pensions to link the move for pension reform to a demand for a meaningful retirement-security option for California private sector workers like the one proposed by Dr. Ghilarducci,” Lockyer said in a
Lonely Planet Greek Islands
by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller · 31 Mar 2012
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis · 2 Oct 2011 · 180pp · 61,340 words
Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy
by David Sawyer · 17 Aug 2018 · 572pp · 94,002 words
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott · 1 Jun 2016 · 344pp · 94,332 words
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox · 29 May 2009 · 461pp · 128,421 words
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · 7 Apr 2008 · 304pp · 22,886 words
Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference
by David Halpern · 26 Aug 2015 · 387pp · 120,155 words
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by David G. Blanchflower · 12 Apr 2021 · 566pp · 160,453 words
Greece Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
The Price of Everything: And the Hidden Logic of Value
by Eduardo Porter · 4 Jan 2011 · 353pp · 98,267 words
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
Italy
by Damien Simonis · 31 Jul 2010
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
by Doug Henwood · 30 Aug 1998 · 586pp · 159,901 words
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 6 Oct 2011 · 471pp · 109,267 words
The Skeptical Economist: Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics
by Jonathan Aldred · 1 Jan 2009 · 339pp · 105,938 words
Stigum's Money Market, 4E
by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi · 9 Feb 2007 · 1,202pp · 424,886 words
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan · 8 Aug 2020 · 438pp · 84,256 words
Paper Promises
by Philip Coggan · 1 Dec 2011 · 376pp · 109,092 words
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty · 10 Mar 2014 · 935pp · 267,358 words
Crisis and Dollarization in Ecuador: Stability, Growth, and Social Equity
by Paul Ely Beckerman and Andrés Solimano · 30 Apr 2002
The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
by Hubert Joly · 14 Jun 2021 · 265pp · 75,202 words
The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
by Faisal Islam · 28 Aug 2013 · 475pp · 155,554 words
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson · 13 Nov 2007 · 471pp · 124,585 words
The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
by Satyajit Das · 9 Feb 2016 · 327pp · 90,542 words
22 Days in May: The birth of the Lib Dem - Conservative coalition
by Laws, David · 22 Nov 2010 · 309pp · 93,958 words
That Used to Be Us
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum · 1 Sep 2011 · 441pp · 136,954 words
Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani · 25 Nov 2008 · 777pp · 186,993 words
What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
by George R. Tyler · 15 Jul 2013 · 772pp · 203,182 words
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
by Marc Levinson · 31 Jul 2016 · 409pp · 118,448 words
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght · 20 Mar 2017
The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
by Diane Coyle · 29 Oct 1998 · 49,604 words
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody · 7 May 2018
France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by Nicola Williams · 14 Oct 2010
Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis
by David Boyle · 15 Jan 2014 · 367pp · 108,689 words
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 14 May 2014 · 372pp · 92,477 words
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity
by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss · 12 Sep 2012
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 28 Jan 2020 · 408pp · 108,985 words
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind
by Jan Lucassen · 26 Jul 2021 · 869pp · 239,167 words
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
by Owen Jones · 14 Jul 2011 · 317pp · 101,475 words
The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
by Joseph C. Sternberg · 13 May 2019 · 336pp · 95,773 words
The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 3 Mar 2020 · 279pp · 90,888 words
Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
by John Hills · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 107,280 words
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
by George Magnus · 10 Sep 2018 · 371pp · 98,534 words
Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy
by Diane Coyle · 14 Jan 2020 · 384pp · 108,414 words
The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Alex Hyde-White · 24 Oct 2016 · 515pp · 142,354 words
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
by Steven Brill · 15 Aug 2011 · 559pp · 161,035 words
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
by Fiona Hill · 4 Oct 2021 · 569pp · 165,510 words
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by Daniel Yergin · 14 Sep 2020
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau · 3 Aug 2016 · 586pp · 160,321 words
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Petre · 30 Sep 2012 · 900pp · 241,741 words
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
by Mark Leonard · 4 Sep 2000 · 131pp · 41,052 words
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
by Dr. Frank Luntz · 2 Jan 2007
Corbyn
by Richard Seymour
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 22 Apr 2019 · 462pp · 129,022 words
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis - and Europe - Can Be Fixed
by John Peet, Anton La Guardia and The Economist · 15 Feb 2014 · 267pp · 74,296 words
Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
by Gideon Rachman · 1 Feb 2011 · 391pp · 102,301 words
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter · 14 Sep 2020 · 627pp · 89,295 words
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
by Philip N. Howard · 27 Apr 2015 · 322pp · 84,752 words
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques · 12 Nov 2009 · 859pp · 204,092 words