The billionaire philanthropist Pete Peterson estimates that most developed countries will need to increase their spending on old age benefit promises from 9% to 16% of GDP over the next 30 years.
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It may also affect productivity, if some people have, or choose, to work on into old age.
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His attention is focused on the old age welfare system, comprising pensions, health care, and nursing care.
It is a striking thing to note that well over 60% of the beneficiaries in this program, which so often is misunderstood as only on old-age benefit system, are women and children.
The second sacred truth, service and selflessness, is just a variation on the age old Golden Rule: It is in your own self-interest to forget your self-interest.
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Governments are bound to spend more on the old as societies age.
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As you're undoubtably aware, Bill Gates is set to retire on June 27th at the ripe old age of 52.
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In 1999 actuaries assumed that a British man retiring at 60 would on average live to the ripe old age of 84.
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In 2003 she coined the term "the positivity effect, " a phenomenon that describes how people focus more on positive than negative information in old age.
This is because it falls in part on money that people were setting aside anyway for their old age, which should be unaffected by the prospect of the tax, as well as on intentional legacies.
While the others bow fully to the floor Al Qadri, in his old age, remains sitting on a plastic chair.
This is Brazil as it is lived by locals, a town of history, hard work, and an age-old focus on a traditional way of life.
In other words, most of those who spend-down to Medicaid due to disability or old age were barely hanging on long before becoming eligible for the program.
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It should be immediately apparent that implementing this policy will require fundamental changes in welfare and social security programs, and in all three of the big old age programs, both on the spending side and the revenue side.
She died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California on September 10, 2007 at the ripe old age of 90.
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The proposed rules say the partial pension arrangement can't begin until an employee reaches 59.5 years old--an age based on current penalties for early distributions from retirement plans.
She added that reality television star Jade Goody's experience has had an effect on women under 25 coming forward, but not as much on the 25 to 29-year-old age group.
Livestock thefts may be an age-old crime, but on the O'Neill farm the police are helping farmers by using the latest technology to tackle the problem.
In what has been for most politicians three months of absorption in the exigencies of the disaster, the bureaucracy has nonetheless plodded on to produce a financial restructuring proposal for the old age welfare system, particularly pensions.
One strategy is to relieve the pressure on mandatory pensions by encouraging private, voluntary saving for old age.
Most avoid the words "old" and "age" and focus on results.
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He is thought to be 28 years old, in a culture that recognizes seniority based on age.
In this new focus on error-free medicine, hospitals are dropping age-old assumptions that their doctors are doing a good job and instead are measuring performance and issuing report cards.
Rather they look on lots of children as a means of helping them in their old age.
An elderly Beowulf puts on his armor for one last hurrah, invoking the age-old duty of all chief executives, male and female: Be a mensch .
In other words, if we cured all diseases and prevented all accidents, people would still die (of old age) in a narrow bell curve distribution centered on 85.
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