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Angola Social Protection Public Expenditure Review (PER)
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Benefits and Costs of Social Pensions in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Expert Voices on Japan Security, Economic, Social, and Foreign Policy Recommendations
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Chapter2 Summary of Audit Results
II Summary of Audit Results Audit Results by Category The total number of cases listed in the Audit Report for FY 2014 was 570. Of these, the number of cases which were not being found appropriate (Improper/Unreasonable Matters) was 556 and the improper amounts1 totalled 156,867.01 million yen. (There were also background amounts 2 concerning the problem cases.) The following Table1 shows the breakdown of the 570 cases by category. Table 1: Audit Findings by Category Number of Improper amounts Category audit cases (Unit: million YEN) (Note 1) • Improprieties 450 16,465.37 • Presentation of Opinions and/or Demand for 49 (Note 7) 72,178.67 Measures (Note 2) • Measures Taken(Note 3) 57 (Note 7) 69,048.61 Total of Improper/Unreasonable Matters 556 156,867.01(Note 8) • Special Report to the Diet and the Cabinet (Note 4) 6 • Special Report on Audit Requested by the Diet(Note 5) 2 • Report on Specific Matters(Note 6) 6 Grand total 570 (Note 1) Improprieties: Matters being found, as a result of audit, in violation of the law, Cabinet Order, the approved budget, or being found improper. (Note 2) Presentation of Opinions and/or Demand for Measures: Matters regarding which the Board has presented its opinions or demanded measures to relevant ministers etc. pursuant to the provisions of Article 34 and 36 of the Board of Audit Act. (Note 3) Measures Taken: Matters for which the auditee took measures for improvement in response to the findings of the Board. (Note 4) Special Report to the Diet and the Cabinet: Matters reported to the Diet and the Cabinet pursuant to the provision of Article 30-2 of the Board of Audit Act. -
400 Mayor and Council Office
FISCAL YEAR 20-21 PRELIMINARY BUDGET TABLE OF CONTENTS General Fund Mayor and City Council Page 1 City Manager Page 11 City Clerk Page 30 Finance Page 37 City Attorney Page 61 Personnel Page 68 Information Technology Page 82 Police Page 99 Community Planning and Development (CP&D) Page 157 Public Works Page 169 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Page 196 Parks and Recreation Page 201 Non‐Departmental Page 289 Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA) Page 296 Code Compliance Page 304 Library Page 312 Purchasing Page 321 Housing and Social Services Page 326 Housing Funds CDBG Page 334 HIPP Page 346 NSP Page 353 SHIP Page 365 Transportation Funds Half Cent Transportation Surtax Page 368 Gas Tax Page 380 Enterprise Funds Building Page 384 Water and Sewer Page 394 Stormwater Page 444 Internal Services Risk Management Page 459 Fleet Management Page 472 All Other Funds Page 482 MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL Page 1 Budget Summary Form Department: Mayor/Council Dept # 01 Actual Amended Est. Proposed EXPENDITURE Expend. Budget Expend. Budget CATEGORY FY19 FY20 FY20 FY21 Personnel Services 575,705 667,055 581,665 623,442 Operating Expenses 1,026,964 883,941 822,441 704,882 Internal Services -3,210 10,597 8,923 11,401 Operating Budget 1,599,459 1,561,593 1,413,029 1,339,725 Capital Outlay 0 4,195 5,920 0 Debt Service 0 0 0 0 Grants & Aids 0000 Reserves & Other 11,537 10,577 10,577 14,859 Total Budget 1,610,996 1,576,365 1,429,526 1,354,584 PERSONNEL SERVICES DETAIL: Salary # of Classification Sch. -
What Is the Role of Social Pensions in Asia? ADBI Working Paper 351
ADBI Working Paper Series What is the Role of Social Pensions in Asia? Armando Barrientos No. 351 April 2012 Asian Development Bank Institute Armando Barrientos is professor and research director at the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. This paper was prepared as a background paper for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)/Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) conference on New Thinking on Social Security in Asia, held at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, on 17 November 2011. The author gratefully acknowledges comments from Mukul Asher, Matthias Meissner, Amita Sharma, and participants at the conference. The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, the ADB, its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms. The Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI’s working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. Suggested citation: Barrientos, A. 2012. What is the Role of Social Pensions in Asia? ADBI Working Paper 351. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute. Available: http://www.adbi.org/working- paper/2012/04/11/5044.role.social.pensions.asia/ Please contact the author(s) for information about this paper. -
Section 8 Creating a Welfare Society Where Elderly and Other People Can Be Active and Comfortable
Section 8 Creating a Welfare Society Where Elderly and Other People can be Active and Comfortable 1 Securing safe and high-quality long-term care services (1) Measures to establish a sustainable system for safe long-term care services for the public In order to cope with the increase in elderly requiring long-term care due to the rapid aging of society and changes in the environments of families that have been supporting those requiring long-term care, including the orientation toward being nuclear families, the long-term care insurance system was established in April 2000 as a system to support the long-term care of elderly throughout society. Since the establishment of the long-term care insurance system, the number of users of long-term care service, in-home care in particular, has doubled. The long-term care insurance system has now been firmly established among people as a system to support the safety of their lives in old age. In the meantime, the expenditure of the system is increasing quickly due to the rapid growth in users (The amount of benefit paid in FY 2008 amounted to 6.4 trillion yen (about 50,000 yen per person), an increase of 4.2% from the previous year.) As Japan is facing a further birth rate decline and aging, securing a sustainable long-term care insurance system is becoming an important future issue. With the progress into the aging society, the elderly with dementia and elderly single-person households are expected to increase in the future. Under such circumstances, efforts have been made to establish the comprehensive community care system (Chart 2-8-2), which comprehensively offers various services including: a) long-term care services; b) medical care including home-visit medical care and home-visit long-term care; c) Life support service such as watching service, meal on wheel and emergency response; and d) securing of houses. -
Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives
Upjohn Press Upjohn Research home page 1-1-2014 Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives Marek Szczepański, Editor Poznań University of Technology John A. Turner, Editor Pension Policy Center Follow this and additional works at: https://research.upjohn.org/up_press Part of the Labor Economics Commons, and the Retirement Security Law Commons Citation Szczepański, Marek and John A. Turner, eds. 2014. Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. https://doi.org/10.17848/ 9780880994705 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. This title is brought to you by the Upjohn Institute. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Job Name: -- /356308t Social Security and Pension Reform In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Rep- resentative if you have questions about finding the option. Job Name: -- /356308t In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Rep- resentative if you have questions about finding the option. Job Name: -- /356308t Social Security and Pension Reform International Perspectives Marek Szczepański John A. Turner Editors 2014 W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Kalamazoo, Michigan In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Rep- resentative if you have questions about finding the option. Job Name: -- /356308t Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Social security and pension reform international perspectives / Marek Szczepanski, John A. -
Good Pensions: Introducing Social Pension Funds to the UK
! Good pensions Introducing social pension funds to the UK Nigel Keohane Simon Rowell September 2015 1 SOCIAL MARKET FOUNDATION ! ! FIRST PUBLISHED BY Copyright © The Social Market Foundation, 2015 11 Tufton Street London SW1P 3QB September 2015 ABOUT THE AUTHORS NIGEL KEOHANE Nigel is Director of Research at the Social Market Foundation (SMF), where he oversees the SMF’s research programme and leads the work on public service reform and commissioning, welfare reform and low pay, and pensions and savings policy. Prior to the SMF, Nigel was Head of Research at the New Local Government Network think tank, worked in local government and taught history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has a BA and MA in history from Exeter University, and a PhD in Political History from Queen Mary. SIMON ROWELL Simon leads on public policy, public affairs, research and strategic projects for Big Society Capital. He led their work on the development of the social investment tax relief in the UK, which became law in 2014, and has helped build the first social investment research council with stakeholders across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to Big Society Capital, he was a corporate lawyer for Linklaters LLP, working on mergers and acquisitions. He has also worked on strategic projects for the London Organising Committee of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and on education reform for the Prime Minister’s Department in Australia. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and degrees in Finance and Law from the University of Queensland. -
Reversing Pension Privatizations
Reversing Pension Privatizations Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America Edited by Isabel Ortiz Fabio Durán-Valverde Stefan Urban Veronika Wodsak Reversing Pension Privatizations: Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America Edited by Isabel Ortiz, Fabio Durán-Valverde, Stefan Urban and Veronika Wodsak Reversing Pension Privatizations: Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America Edited by Isabel Ortiz, Fabio Durán-Valverde, Stefan Urban and Veronika Wodsak International Labour Organization Copyright © International Labour Organization 2018 First published 2018 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condi- tion that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation, application should be made to ILO Publications (Rights and Licensing), International Labour Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, or by email: [email protected]. The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. Libraries, institutions and other users registered with a reproduction rights organization may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. Visit www.ifrro.org to find the reproduction rights organization in your country. Reversing Pension Privatizations: Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America / International Labour Office – Geneva: ILO, 2018. ISBN: 978-92-2-132242-9 (print) ISBN: 978-92-2-132243-6 (web) The designations employed in ILO publications, which are in conformity with United Nations practice, and the presentation of material therein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the International Labour Office concerning the legal status of any country, area or territory or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers.