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IER's Bernard Casey gave a presentation at the conference "The Cyprus Economy at a Time of European Uncertainty: Managing Reform and Sustainability", organised by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and held at LSE on 10-2-12. His talk on "The Fiscal Implications of Demographic Change" gave an overview of the challenges of addressing pension and care provision for Cyprus's ageing population. Other presenters at the event included the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Republic of Cyprus, Prof. Chris Pissarides, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics, the head of sovereign debt rating for Europe, Middle East and Africa from Standard & Poor's, experts from the World Bank and the European Commission and academics from the University of Cyprus.

This week IER welcomes Professor Philip Taylor as a Visiting Fellow.

Professor Taylor is Director, Research and Graduate Studies at Monash University, Australia. During his visit he will give a seminar entitled Workability in Australia on Wednesday 16 November, which is to be held at 11:30 in B0.45 Social Science building.

Bernard Casey will be presenting at NIESR (27 September) on working past retirement age.