Political insincerity about the pension system?
Sep 08, 2010
By Ieva Cielava
RIGA - The high rate of emigration, unemployment and an ageing population will soon be hitting Latvians in the pocketbook, because this demographic alert now demands changes in the way the pension system operates, warns Roberts Kilis, social anthropologist and advisor to Latvia’s president, Valdis Zatlers. To the BBC news agency he explained that the birthrate in the country is below an average of 1.4 children per woman, which is not enough to sustain the population, even without emigra ...
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