Changing Risks Confronting Pension Participants

Confronting the Risks of Undocumented

The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place. By Judith Adler Hellman. New York: New Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 546. $17.95 paper. $28.50 cloth. “I Know It’s Dangerous”: Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border. By Lynnaire M. Sheridan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 206. $24.95 paper. $55.00 cloth. Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texa...

Confronting the risks of terrorism: making the right decisions

Scale of Longevity Risks for Pension and Life Annuity Providers

Improved longevity is a human triumph. But improved longevity, when it occurs among those who are no longer economically productive, has a cost. Persistent decrease in mortality rates has become a major concern of annuity and pension providers, especially mortality improvements for post-retirement ages which have significant financial impact as far as survival benefits are concerned. There are ...

Changing Geographical Indications of Prosecco: Chances, Risks or Threats?

Recently, Prosecco wine industry has dramatically increased. Wine producers were able to exploit successfully opportunities coming from both the supply growth and consumer appreciation (Boatto et al., 2008; Boatto et al., 2009). More recently, this success has been accomplished by an increasing competition on both domestic and international markets. Indeed, a lack in regulations on production, ...

Health care systems in transition: confronting new problems in changing circumstances.

This essay introduces a series of articles in which authors from Brazil, China, the Netherlands, and New Zealand describe their health care system. The juxtaposition of these four case studies reveals how different systems confront common problems. The four systems use widely differing combinations of the same financing tactics, and all are engaged in limiting inefficient increases in health ...