China and Ageing
- Capital:
Beijing - Population:
1330044000 - Size:
9596960.0 Km2
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- China’s ageing population could mean slower economic growth and mounting social stress
- R. Jackson; K. Nakashima; N. Howe / Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2009
- China’s working-age population will shrink as its elderly population explodes. Unless China prepares for the challenge, a retirement crisis of immense proportions looms just over the horizon. No matter how fast China's economy g...
- Asia will not age gracefully unless difficult policy choices are made very soon
- J. Menon; A. Melendez-Nakamura / Asian Development Bank, 2009
- Within the next few decades, Asia is poised to become the oldest region in the world; reforming policies and creating new structures and institutions to address this challenge is a huge and complex undertaking that requires a big head...
- Pension reforms experiences provide lessons for China
- D. Titelman; C. Vera; E. Perez Caldentey / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
- The pension reform experience of the Latin American countries in the past two decades shows that the intended reforms did not manage to meet their objectives. Countries undertook structural pension reforms focused mainly on addressing...
- Designing flexible pensions systems to encompass more workers
- Y. Hu; F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing co...
- What Asia must do to ensure sustainable pensions?
- A. Reilly (ed); E. Whitehouse (ed) / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes. A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future ad...
- Governments’ policies on pension provision are badly misguided
- P. Booth (ed); N. Juurikkala (ed); N. Silver (ed) / Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
- This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that wid...
- The importance of living arrangements in poverty avoidance for older persons
- T. Smeeding; Q. Gao; P. Saunders; C. Wing / Luxembourg Income Study, 2008
- In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor in rich countries. Poverty in rich na...
- Suggestions for new approaches to a pension and healthcare systems
- B.J. Sikken; N. Davis; C. Hayashi; H. Olkkonen / World Economic Forum, 2008
- Populations are ageing at an unprecedented rate. This will undermine the financial sustainability of not only traditional pension systems, but also conventional healthcare systems. This report argues that urgent action in many countri...
- Living in Chinese elderly care homes is seen as a privilege
- H.J. Zhan; X. Feng; B. Luo / Research on Aging, 2008
- For over 2,500 years, many adult children in China have followed the Confucian doctrine of filial piety, or xiao, which promoted providing physical care for their ageing parents at home. Until recently, Chinese law also required ...
- Asia is challenged with dealing with the implications of a graying society
- N. Kumar Chadha / Asian Productivity Organization, 2008
- Collection of papers arguing that challenges arising from the increasing number of the aged can only be dealt with by a multipronged approach centered on the family, the society, and the government. The authors of the papers in ...
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