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  • Tunisia Public Expenditure Review : A New Pact for the Transition Modernizing the State for Better and Fairer Public Spending - Overview Report (French)

    Tunisia faces the challenge of improving the quality of its public spending and maintaining fiscal sustainability following a decade of weak economic performance. It is critical for Tunisia to strengthen...

    Document Type: Public Expenditure Review Report No.: 149126 Document Date: January 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sy,Abdoulaye,Trape,Philip,Al Kadi,Dalia,Sanchez Quintela,Sonia,Hkiri,Marwen,Obayashi,Natsuko,El Ghandour,Ibrahim,Bteddini,Lida,Pallares-Miralles,Montserrat,Whitehouse,Edward R.,Walker,Thomas,Barouni,Mahdi,Drabble,Michael,Halabi,Saamira,Zaafrane,Hafedh,El Kadiri El Yamani,Fatima,Gaudin,Sylvestre,Ayadi,Ines,Larbi,Hedi,Basti,Ahmed,Chebbi,Mohamed Salah,Gafrej,Raoudha

  • Tunisia Public Expenditure Review : A New Pact for the Transition Modernizing the State for Better and Fairer Public Spending - Overview Report (English)

    Tunisia faces the challenge of improving the quality of its public spending and maintaining fiscal sustainability following a decade of weak economic performance. It is critical for Tunisia to strengthen...

    Document Type: Public Expenditure Review Report No.: 149126 Document Date: January 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sy,Abdoulaye,Trape,Philip,Al Kadi,Dalia,Sanchez Quintela,Sonia,Hkiri,Marwen,Obayashi,Natsuko,El Ghandour,Ibrahim,Bteddini,Lida,Pallares-Miralles,Montserrat,Whitehouse,Edward R.,Walker,Thomas,Barouni,Mahdi,Drabble,Michael,Halabi,Saamira,Zafraane,Hafedh,El Kadiri El Yamani,Fatima,Gaudin,Sylvestre,Ayadi,Ines,Larbi,Hedi,Basti,Ahmed,Chebbi,Mohamed Salah,Gafrej,Raoudha

  • International patterns of pension provision II : a worldwide overview of facts and figures (English)

    This paper presents and explains cross country data for mandatory publicly and privately managed pension systems around the world. This report is organized into three parts corresponding to three broad...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 70319 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pallares-Miralles,Montserrat,Romero Robayo,Carolina,Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Adequacy (1) Pension entitlements, replacement rates and pension wealth (English)

    This note briefly sets out a methodology for calculating prospective pension entitlements promised in the future to today’s workers. This method can (and has been) applied to a wide range of countries...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 70349 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Coverage : how much of the labor force is covered by the pension system? (English)

    This briefing note looks at issues in the measurement of coverage by the formal pension system of people of working age. It is the second in a series describing the World Bank's Pension Reform Indicators...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 70348 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Romero Robayo,Carolina,Palacios,Robert J.,Pallares-Miralles,Montserrat,Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Pension indicators : reliable statistics to improve pension policymaking (English)

    This introductory note updates the Bank's database on pensions, that was first established in the early 1990s to inform the research analysis on averting the old age crisis, and formulating policies to...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 70347 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Adequacy (2) : Pension entitlements of recent retirees (English)

    This note discusses how expected benefit levels can be assessed. The note points out the measurement of current benefit levels that are observable: they do not depend on any assumptions about the future...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 70350 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Zviniene,Asta,Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Security : Risk and uncertainty in retirement-income systems (English)

    The recent financial crisis means that investment risk is at the forefront of the minds of the public and policymakers alike. But there is a range of risks and uncertainties in pension systems. At the...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 70354 Document Date: January 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Administrative efficiency : Assessing the cost of running public pension systems (English)

    The cost of administering public pensions matters because it must ultimately be paid by individuals, either as taxpayers or through lower benefits. High costs are a sign of administrative efficiency. A...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 70353 Document Date: January 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Palacios,Robert J.,Sluchynsky,Olegskiy,Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Pensions panorama : retirement-income systems in 53 countries (Russian)

    Pensions panorama provides a compendium of facts and analysis that should inform policy making and public debate about retirement-income systems around the world. The section following the introduction...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 37961 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Pensions panorama : retirement-income systems in 53 countries (English)

    Pensions panorama provides a compendium of facts and analysis that should inform policy making and public debate about retirement-income systems around the world. The section following the introduction...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 37961 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Taxation : the tax treatment of funded pensions (English)

    The tax treatment of funded pensions is a critical policy choice in pension reform. In countries with mature funded systems, like the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33389 Document Date: July 13, 2005 Disclosure Status: Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Pensions in the Middle East and North Africa: time for change (English)

    This is the first comprehensive assessment of pension systems in the Middle East and North Africa. While other regions-Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, in particular-have been actively...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34358 Document Date: May 23, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Musalem,Alberto Roque,Robalino, David [editor],Sherwood, Elizabeth,Sluchynsky, Oleksiy,Whitehouse,Edward R.

  • Supervision : building public confidence in mandatory funded pensions (English)

    The regulation and supervision of individual pension accounts has been a neglected issue. In contrast, much has been written on financing the transition to funded pensions and the design of benefits. Yet...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33387 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Author: Whitehouse,Edward R.