The International Labour Organization (ILO) has issued a recent Working Paper Financing Gaps in Social Protection: Global Estimates and Strategies for Developing Countries in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond. The paper covers 134 developing countries that were included…
The Office of the Chief Actuary for the US Social Security system has released an information note that provides an updated baseline for the actuarial status of the OASDI trust funds, reflecting the estimated effects of the covid-19 pandemic and…
The 2020 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds presents information regarding the financial status of the U.S. Social Security system. At the end of 2019, the OASDI program…
The French Institute of Actuaries will host an international actuarial colloquium in Paris in May with the theme Individual Choices facing Societal Changes. The organizers of this international colloquium have posed a question that represents a direct challenge to the…
The National Academy of Social Insurance is a Washington-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose membership comprises the nation’s leading experts on social insurance. The Academy’s mission is to advance solutions to national social and economic challenges and to increase public understanding…
The Social Security 2100 Act, which was previously discussed in the August 2014 edition of Commentary, has been modified and updated. This proposed legislation would strengthen the United States Social Security system, known as Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI),…
The 2019 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds presents information regarding the financial status of the U.S. Social Security system. The Board of Trustees is composed of six…
This edition of Commentary represents a continuation of the series on the topic of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Three previous editions of Commentary, published in December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018, presented a concise overview of the…
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were in effect until 2015 when they were superseded by a revised and expanded set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that provide a framework for the UN post-2015 Development Agenda. Together, the MDGs…
The July edition of Commentary presented the main results from the 2018 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds regarding the financial status of the U.S. Social Security system.…