Old-Age Income Insecurity in Singapore: A Problem of Non-Inclusive Development

Pundarik Mukhopadhaya and Sunil Venaik

Australian Economic Papers, 2014, vol. 53, issue 3-4, 184-206

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With a growing old-age population, ensuring income security for the elderly is becoming an increasingly important element of public policy worldwide. The World Bank report proposed a three-tier system to avert old-age crisis, which was extended into a five-tier system by Holzmann et al. Our analysis of Singapore's old-age income security system in light of these two systems shows that it lacks the basic zero and first pillars of protection against old-age hardships. We show that a budget allocation of less than half a percent of national gross domestic product (GDP) can ensure that no elderly citizen suffers from poverty in Singapore. As Singapore occupies the status of a developed country, a government-financed pension system that is adequate, affordable, sustainable and robust is long overdue.

Date: 2014
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