World Bank encourages inflation-linked pension increases

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EUROPE/CENTRAL ASIA - Pension funds in Europe and Central Asia should provide pension increases in line with cost of living indexes instead of wages to make the systems more sustainable, the World Bank said.

In its recent report, Pensions in Crisis: Europe and Central Asia Regional, the World Bank said most countries in the region use some element of wage growth when calculating pension increases takin...

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