promotion of savings

Individual Retirement Account | Investment Retirement Account | IRA [Abbr.]

savings and loan association | savings and loan institution | S&L [Abbr.]

Macular sparing

Lid sparing

New Canada Savings Bonds Payroll Program Instructions [ Form S44 | Payroll Savings Plan Instructions Booklet | Canada Payroll Savings Instructions ]

solder resist | solder mask

Chequable savings deposit

Canada Savings Bonds Payroll Program Campaign 2000 [ CSB Payroll Program Campaign 2000 ]

Promotion of walking using mobility aid

Initiatives linking working time with training (for example working time accounts, educational and training leave and job rotation schemes are continuing. Efforts to develop accreditation systems for non-formal learning are being taken forward. There are some signs of a movement towards a longer-term, more strategic approach to workforce development and the promotion of more integrated packages of measures promoting lifelong learning but generally little attention has been given to promoting a broader culture of learning in the workplace. Entitlement of workers to individual training plans is becoming more common (Belgium, Denmark, the N ...[+++]etherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom), and, in a few cases, a broader entitlement to a minimum number of hours training per year is being introduced (Portugal, Finland). However, it is too early to see the results.

13. Asks the Member States to support economic and employment growth by promoting long-term savings through savings mobilisation policies;

Therefore, the EIB should dedicate a larger part of its efforts in developing countries to promoting access to credit, to savings and to insurance for the poor, through rural development banks, cooperative banks and other microfinance institutions.

25. Recognises the fact that public pension systems strengthen social solidarity and are the responsibility of the Member States and that safeguarding these systems should be a political priority; believes that greater use of alternatives to state-funded pensions, such as supplementary schemes, could be a viable alternative; points out that private pensions could include occupational supplementary pension schemes by employers or other collective organisations and associations and individual supplementary pensions based on savings; emphasises that the existence of private pensions would increase the need for the appropriate regulation of private pension funds, the portability of such pensions and the ...[+++]promotion and continued modernisation (including more flexibility) of these alternatives; within this framework, believes that the risk should be taken into account that women in the context of the existing public pension system might lose insurance coverage if private provisions are to replace this system, but that this risk can be reduced by crediting pension entitlements for maternity leave, parental leave and breaks from work for personal reasons;