China and Ageing
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Beijing - Population:
1330044000 - Size:
9596960.0 Km2
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- Which countries are preparing for old age?
- R. Jackson; N. Howe; K. Nakashima / Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2011
- The Global Aging Preparedness Index (or GAP Index) aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the progress that countries are making in preparing for global ageing, and particularly the “old-age dependency” dimension of...
- Chinese elderly population continues to grow but the availability of family caregivers is decreasing
- Population Reference Bureau, 2010
- The proportion of elderly citizens in China will continue to grow very quickly, as a combination of China’s one-child policy and low mortality takes effect, increasing the stress on an already troubled health care system. Only 4...
- A model for adjusting the pension rules for increasing longevity in China
- H. Oksane / Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 2010
- The Chinese population, totalling 1.3 billion, is ageing fast. The Chinese pension system covers only 55% of urban employees and reaches a very small part of the rural population. Previous pension reforms have not su...
- Improving rural and urban pension provision in China
- R. Herd; Y.-W. Hu; V. Koen / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
- China’s population is ageing fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. Migration of the young to urban areas is raising the proportion of the elderly in the rural population and the increase in the old-age de...
- Pension policy and how to restrain the over-fast growth of capital assets investment in China
- Z. Yang / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
- This paper investigates the urban public pension in China, and examines the effects of the replacement rates and population growth rate on the capital-labour ratio, pension benefits, consumption and utility. Furthermore, it figures ou...
- Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments
- M.J. Prince; D. Acosta; E. Castro-Costa; J. Jackson; K.S. Shaji / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
- Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low. This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, rev...
- The experiences of the FUNRURAL pension programme in Brazil
- P. Lloyd-Sherlock; A. Barrientos / New Dynamics of Ageing, 2009
- Like Brazil in the 1960s, China is now facing problems of large geographical inequalities, as well high rates of rural to urban migration of younger aged adults. However, rural older people account for a much higher share of China?s t...
- Encouraging Asian pension funds to work towards a responsible future
- The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009
- Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify. The integration of environmenta...
- Improving the returns from assets managed by Asian pension funds
- D. Park / Asian Development Bank, 2009
- Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pens...
- Mandatory systems to expand pension coverage to informal sector in Asia are unlikely to work
- L. MacKellar (ed) / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2009
- The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age. Given the large and sometimes growing...
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