A Review of Public Pension Schemes: Perspective of Social Protection Floor Framework
Andrews Doeh Agblobi, Anthony Kofi Osei-Fosu

Abstract
The paper aims to analyse pension schemes in selected countries and compare them to the achievement of Social Protection Floor’s objective. The internationally accepted benchmark for social security requires countries to extend coverage to all elderly. Using secondary data, the study assess selected countries public pension schemes and scored each country’s existing scheme against horizontal coverage dimension. The result shows that two West African countries pension schemes do not achieve Social Protection Floor objective. As a policy, governments in Ghana and other West Africa countries must seriously consider setting up and extending old age pension to all residents’ elderly persons.

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