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Scottish bill
Scotland’s local authorities will have to find an extra £190m ($304m) in coming years because of over use of early retirement, according to a report by the Accounts Commission, which audits spending by Scotland’s public bodies. It says that the recent re-organisation of local government saw councils using early retirement ...
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'Too few cradles - not enough graves'
Fennell Betson reports from the CATO conference on ‘The global public pension crisis’Most politicians in Germany do not hear the pensions timebomb ticking, Klaus Friedrich of Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt told the Cato/’The Economist conference on ‘The global pensions crisis’ in London last month.Germany had added some 17m potential social ...
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Funding's advantages over pay-as-you-go
Systems of retirement-income provision are facing a crisis in many OECD countries as a consequence of the ageing of the population combined with generous social security promises. The vast increases in contributions required in the future to make such systems sustainable demonstrate the scale of imbalances. This has led to ...
