Building Older Persons’ “Resilience” Through Old-Age Pension Schemes in Georgia
(2022) JAMM07 20221Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract
- Older persons’ rights are increasingly penetrating the Human Rights discourse in response to the surging aging of the world population. Old-age pension schemes are designed to protect older persons against vulnerabilities once they resign from the job market. In 2018, Georgia adopted a new contributory Accumulated Old-age Pension scheme which operates alongside the existing non-contributory State Pension scheme. This thesis analyses these old-age pension schemes in Georgia in light of the Human Rights framework and contributes to a wider global debate on the urgency to shift the focus from a needs-based approach to older persons’ right to social security to a rights-based approach.
To achieve these goals, this thesis uses the... (More) - Older persons’ rights are increasingly penetrating the Human Rights discourse in response to the surging aging of the world population. Old-age pension schemes are designed to protect older persons against vulnerabilities once they resign from the job market. In 2018, Georgia adopted a new contributory Accumulated Old-age Pension scheme which operates alongside the existing non-contributory State Pension scheme. This thesis analyses these old-age pension schemes in Georgia in light of the Human Rights framework and contributes to a wider global debate on the urgency to shift the focus from a needs-based approach to older persons’ right to social security to a rights-based approach.
To achieve these goals, this thesis uses the Vulnerability Theory developed by professor Martha Albertson Fineman. It links the logic of thinking proposed by this theory to the human rights principles applicable to the right to social security.
The research demonstrates older persons’ invisibility in human rights instruments. It underscores the need to rethink and reconceptualize the way we think and talk about older persons and their human rights. It shows the drawbacks of Georgian pension schemes and illustrates existing gaps in terms of coverage through principles of universality and non-discrimination. It underscores the lack of solidarity in a contributory pension scheme which is likely to mirror existing economic inequalities. The thesis further highlights that existing old-age pension schemes in Georgia are unable to ensure a dignified life for older persons, and they barely manage to protect them from extreme poverty. (Less)
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- author
- Davitadze, Diana LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- JAMM07 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Older Persons, Ageism, Social Security, Human Rights, Vulnerability Theory, Old-age Pensions, Women, Georgia.
- language
- English
- id
- 9093176
- date added to LUP
- 2022-06-27 16:08:47
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abstract = {{Older persons’ rights are increasingly penetrating the Human Rights discourse in response to the surging aging of the world population. Old-age pension schemes are designed to protect older persons against vulnerabilities once they resign from the job market. In 2018, Georgia adopted a new contributory Accumulated Old-age Pension scheme which operates alongside the existing non-contributory State Pension scheme. This thesis analyses these old-age pension schemes in Georgia in light of the Human Rights framework and contributes to a wider global debate on the urgency to shift the focus from a needs-based approach to older persons’ right to social security to a rights-based approach.
To achieve these goals, this thesis uses the Vulnerability Theory developed by professor Martha Albertson Fineman. It links the logic of thinking proposed by this theory to the human rights principles applicable to the right to social security.
The research demonstrates older persons’ invisibility in human rights instruments. It underscores the need to rethink and reconceptualize the way we think and talk about older persons and their human rights. It shows the drawbacks of Georgian pension schemes and illustrates existing gaps in terms of coverage through principles of universality and non-discrimination. It underscores the lack of solidarity in a contributory pension scheme which is likely to mirror existing economic inequalities. The thesis further highlights that existing old-age pension schemes in Georgia are unable to ensure a dignified life for older persons, and they barely manage to protect them from extreme poverty.}},
author = {{Davitadze, Diana}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Building Older Persons’ “Resilience” Through Old-Age Pension Schemes in Georgia}},
year = {{2022}},
}