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The consumption tax: a brief analytic overview from an Australian policy perspective
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Retirement income design with an ageing demographic
No full textIn the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 2013 Keith Hancock Lecture Retirement income design with an ageing demographic, Scientia Professor John Piggott FASSA, argues that population ageing has challenged the standard 20th century retirement income paradigm, which relies on ever-growing payrolls to finance retirees. These structures have become unsustainable in many countries, and public promises have not been kept. Professor Piggott explains the challenges of retirement income provision in an era of demographic ageing, and explores alternative approaches to the financing and design of retirement incomes. Research analysis is combined with country experience to argue for a set of policies suitable for this new demographic environment. Scientia Professor John Piggott FASSA, is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research at UNSW, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics and Australian Professorial Fellow. He has a long standing expertise in retirement and pension economics and finance, in both the academic and policy spheres. His Australian policy experience includes membership of both the Henry Tax Review Panel and the Ministerial Superannuation Advisory Committee
Indexing pensions
No full textPension indexation should anchor the parameters of the pension system to one or more economic and demographic variables to ensure that the system is implemented in a sustainable way, while minimizing distortions affecting important economic choices. Arguing that financial sustainability, incentive compatibility and consistency across multiple government programs are critical, the author examine the many linkages between the various parameters of pension schemes. Finally, the author turn to the cost of the insurance dimension of indexation, and suggest that option pricing techniques could be used to price indexation guarantees, and that this approach may suggest refinements to indexation practice not thus far implemented.Emerging Markets,Debt Markets,Pensions&Retirement Systems,Economic Theory&Research,Markets and Market Access
Developments in Retirement Provision: Global Trends and Lessons from Australia and the US
No full textOliva S. Mitchell and John Piggott argue that retirement systems should be conceived of as long-term financial contracts under which workers\u27 contributions today are exchanged for benefits paid to the elderly tomorrow. Such contracts are said to be well-managed if the transactions are handled in an affordable, reliable, and efficient manner. Yet all pension systems are forced to operate under a multitude of constraints including participants\u27 ability and willingness to save; the availability of assets with which to convert current saving into future retirement benefits; the limitations of imperfect capital markets; political influences imposed by stakeholders; country macroeconomic conditions; and as we are becoming increasingly aware, global business cycles. If pensions are to continue to meet the needs of an aging world, it is imperative to prepare for emerging challenges as these systems evolve through time
The Australian Approach to Retirement Income Provision
No full textInternational Seminar on Pensions, 5-7 March, 2001, Sano-shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, Organised by The Project on Intergenerational Equity (PIE), The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi UniversityThis paper is based on Appendix 1 of Bateman H, G Kingston and J Piggott, Forced Saving: Mandatory Private Retirement Provision, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.科学研究費補助金（特定領域研究） = Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area
The Australian Approach to Retirement Income Provision
No full textInternational Seminar on Pensions, 5-7 March, 2001, Sano-shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, Organised by The Project on Intergenerational Equity (PIE), The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi UniversityThis paper is based on Appendix 1 of Bateman H, G Kingston and J Piggott, Forced Saving: Mandatory Private Retirement Provision, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.科学研究費補助金（特定領域研究） = Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area
Time to pull the plug on our soggy soils
No full textNewspaper article by Max Piggott.
Tenterton farmer John Davis had his eyes opened to the possibilities in subsoil drainage on a tour of the United Kingdom. His interest in drainage arises from a private experiment aimed at arresting soil salinity being conducted on his property, where 65 millimetre slotted pipe has been set about 1.2 metres deep running through three hillside saline seeps at 40 metre intervals.
This article contains a photograph of John Davis inspecting a drain on his property.
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This article is part of the WISALTS (Whittington Interceptor Sustainable Agriculture Land Treatment Society Incorporated) Collection
A funeral sermon occasion'd by the death of the Reverend Mr. Samuel Ewer, late Minister of the Gospel at Hempstead in Hartfordshire. Preach'd the 24th of December, 1708. By John Piggott [electronic resource].
No full textElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Richard Kennedy, and Mary his wife; Peter Lesack, and Alson his wife, appellants. John Pigott, Esq; and George Monck, Esq; respondents. The respondents case [electronic resource].
No full textDrop-head title.Signed: N. Lechmere, Sam. Mead.Docket title: 'Kennedy and others, appellants. Piggott and Monck, respondents. The respondents [sic] case. To be heard on [blank] the [blank] day of [blank] 171[blank]".House of Lords appeal case.The separately printed appellants' case is dated: "1717-8".Brace(s) in title or imprint.NACO HTC.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Soil: the slave that suffers underfoot
No full textMax Piggott discusses his impressions of a book 'The Soil', written late last century by Professor F.H. King of the University of Wisconsin and how Professor King's words about agricultural science came back as Mr Piggott flew over salt affected land at Ongerup. WISALTS is filling the vacuum left by agriculturalists lured away from soil management by the bewitching gains to be made with new techniques in crop and animal production. The fast-growing membership of WISALTS and the recently imposed land clearing bans have resulted from our past deficiencies in land and water management in Western Australia, and if the promotion of Whittington interceptor bank systems achieves only heightened interest in land management and conservation, it will be a major achievement.
This article contains two images: an aerial view showing the extent of salt encroachment on an Ongerup property; and WISALTS president Lloyd Richards, Mick Jaekel, Dave Oborne and John Brown studying an aerial view of salt affected land near Ongerup
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This article is part of the WISALTS (Whittington Interceptor Sustainable Agriculture Land Treatment Society Incorporated) Collection
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