Executive Course on Pension Policy
This course provides an executive training on pension policy, equipping participants with the skills to actively participate in national policy processes towards designing and reforming pension systems. An important feature of the course is to provide a whole systems approach to understanding pension policy, covering design of both contributory and tax-financed (non-contributory) pensions, and exploring how they can best be integrated in to a system that serves all .
Learning Objectives
- To gain a theoretical understanding of the core role and various functions of pension systems
- To learn about design choices for different kinds of pension schemes (contributory and non-contributory) and how they can be integrated
- To critically analyze case studies of pensions reforms in terms of their impacts on coverage, adequacy and sustainability and gender-responsiveness
- To apply acquired analytical skills and knowledge to formulation of pension design and reform proposals for specific country contexts