Implementing an Inclusive and Equitable Pension Reform : Lessons from India's New Pension Scheme /

India is ageing. One response of Indian policy makers has been introduction of the New Pension Scheme (NPS), a defined contribution pension scheme which is mandatory for civil servants and voluntary for the rest of the population. Given the size of the target population, even if take up is modest, N...

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Main Author: Kim, Cheolsu
Other Authors: MacKellar, Landis, Galer, Russell, Bhardwaj, Gautam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Implementing an Inclusive and Equitable Pension Reform; Copyright Page; Contents; About the authors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and abbreviations; Part I: Introduction, background, and context; 1. Introduction; 2. Demographic and economic context; Part II: The pension system reform; 3. The New Pension Scheme: design, governance, and institutions; 4. NPS analysis, findings, and recommendations I: design; 5. NPS analysis, findings, and recommendationsII: governance and institutions.
  • Part III: NPS communications, marketing, and business practices6. Communications and marketing for the NPS; 7. NPS business processes and information technology needs; Part IV: The economics and demography of the NPS; 8. The potential size of the NPS; 9. NPS and the individual saver; Part V: Occupational pension schemes; 10. Compulsory occupational schemes; 11. Analysis, findings, and recommendations on compulsory occupational pension schemes; 12. Analysis, findings, and recommendations on unregulated voluntary occupational pension schemes; Part VI: Towards an integrated policy.
  • 13. Implementing pension reformsAppendix 1. International experience with voluntary retirement saving schemes; Appendix 2. The Maxwell and Madoff Frauds; Notes; References; Documents utilized in legal, regulatory, and policy analysis; Index.