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23301: The World Bank and the provision of assistance to redundant workers: experience with enterprise restructuring and future directions

Yi Chen

23162: Operating instructions included: a review of social investment fund operations manuals

Juliana Weissman

23161: Risk and vulnerability: the forward looking role of social protection in a globalizing world

Robert Holzmann

23160: Australia's mandatory retirement saving policy: a view from the new millennium

Hazel Bateman and John Piggott

23159: Annuity markets and benefit design in multi-pillar pension schemes: experience and lessons from four Latin American countries

Robert Palacios and Rafael Rofman

23156: Kazakhstan: an ambitious pension reform

Emily S. Andrews

23155: Long-term consequences of an innovative redundancy - retraining project: the Austrian Steel Foundation

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

23146: Community based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets

Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

23145: Disability and work in Poland

Tom Hoopengardner

23144: Do market wages influence child labor and child schooling?

Jackline Wahba

23143: Including the most vulnerable: social funds and people with disabilities

Pamela Dudzik and Dinah Mcleod

23142: Pension reform and public information in Poland

Agnieszka Chlon

23141: How poor are the old? a survey of evidence from 44 countries

Edward Whitehouse

23140: Administrative charges for funded pensions: an international comparison and assessment

Edward Whitehouse

23089: The pension system in Argentina - six years after the reform

Rafael Rofman

23088: Pension systems in East Asia and the Pacific: challenges and opportunities

Robert Holzmann, Ian W. Mac Arthur and Yvonne Sin

23087: Survey of disability projects: the experience of SHIA, Swedish International Aid for Solidarity and Humanity

Kaj Nordquist

23086: The Swedish pension reform model: framework and issues

Edward Palmer

23071: Ratcheting labor standards: regulation for continuous improvement in the global workplace

Charles Sabel, Dara O'Rourke and Archon Fung

23070: Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem ?

Robert Holzmann

23068: Disability issues, trends and recommendations for the World Bank

Robert L. Metts

23067: Reform options for pay-as-you-go public pension systems

Sheetal Chand and Albert Jaeger

23030: What can be done about child labor ? - An overview of recent research and its implications for designing programs to reduce child labor

Bjorne Grimsrud

23029: Measuring and analyzing child labor: methodological issues

Bjorne Grimsrud

21612: Worker reallocation during Estonia's transition to market: how efficient and how equitable?

Milan Vodopivec

21336: Beneficiary assessment manual for social funds

Lawrence F. Salmen

21335: Coordinating poverty alleviation programs with regional and local governments: the experience of the Chilean Social Fund - FOSIS

Jorge C. Barrientos

21334: Uncertainty about children's survival and fertility: a test using Indian microdata

Vincenzo Atella and Furio Rosati

21333: Helping the poor manage risk better: the role of social funds

Steen Lau Jorgensen and Julie Van Domelen

21325: Improving regulations and supervision of pension funds: are there lessons from the Banking Sector?

Roberto Rocha, Richard Hinz and Joaquin Gutierrez

21324: An asset-based approach to social risk management: a conceptual framework

Paul B. Siegel and Jeffrey Alwang

21315: Poverty and disability: a survey of the literature

Ann Elwan

21312: Pension reform, financial literacy and public information: a case study of the United Kingdom

Edward Whitehouse

21311: Managing public pension reserves - Part I: evidence from the international experience

Augusto Iglesias and Robert Palacios

21303: Extending coverage in multi-pillar pension systems: constraints and hypotheses, preliminary evidence and future research agenda

Robert Holzmann, Truman Packard and Jose Cuesta

21302: Notional accounts as a pension reform strategy: an evaluation

Richard Disney

20852: Shaping pension reform in Poland: security through diversity

Agnieszka Chlon, Marek Góra and Michal Rutkowski

20851: Pension plans and retirement incentives

Richard Disney and Edward Whitehouse

20850: Latvian pension reform

Louise Fox and Edward Palmer

20849: OECD public pension programmes in crisis: an evaluation of the reform options

Richard Disney

20848: The pension system in Singapore

Mukul G. Asher

20847: Risks in pensions and annuities: efficient designs

Salvador Valdés

20818: Migration from the Russian north during the transition period

Timothy Heleniak

20817: Labor markets and poverty in Bulgaria

Jan J. Rutkowski

20533: Taking stock of pension reforms around the world

Anita M. Schwarz and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

20456: Child labor and schooling in Africa: a comparative study

R. Sudharshan Canagarajah and Helena Nielsen

20131: Evaluating the impact of active labor programs: results of cross country studies in Europe and Central Asia

David H. Fretwell, Jacob Benus and Christopher O'Leary

20130: Safety nets in transition economics: toward a reform strategy

Emily S. Andrews and Dena Ringold

20129: Public service employment: a review of programs in selected OECD countries and transition economies

Sandra Wilson and David H. Fretwell

20127: Unemployment and unemployment protection in three groups of countries

Wayne Vroman