India and Ageing
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Assessing the determinants of private saving in India and Malaysia
- J. Ang; K. Sen / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
- This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the &lsq...
- 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...
- Persuading those who have little today to save for tomorrow
- D. Uthira; H.L. Manohar / International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
- The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme. It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management b...
- Indian pension scheme improves quality of life through greater independence
- HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009
- Poor older people in India have had the benefit of a means-tested social pension for over 10 years. Selection of beneficiaries is a responsibility of local government, and there are reports that the scheme does not always benefit the ...
- 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...
- Calls to prioritise mental health care for the elderly in India
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2007
- Special healthcare needs of the aged will have to be addressed by healthcare systems across the world. For older people, mental health conditions are an important cause of morbidity and premature mortality. With its devastating ...
- Is dementia in developing countries more widespread than previously thought?
- J.J. Llibre Rodriguez; C.P. Ferri; D. Acosta / The Lancet, 2008
- Studies have suggested that the prevalence of dementia is lower in developing than in developed regions. This paper investigates the prevalence and severity of dementia in sites in low-income and middle-income countries according to t...
- MFIs and micro-pensions in India
- R.S. Arunachalam / WorldGranny, 2007
- This paper discusses micro-pensions in India with a particular focus on the critical issues, and the current challenges and strategies. It also looks at the role that Micro-finance Institutions (MFIs) play in micro-pensions. ...
- Agewell Foundation
- Outreach and research initiatives for the elderly in India
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry (IJP)
- The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is an official publication of the Indian Psychiatric Society. The IJP publishes original work in all the fields of psychiatry. All papers are peer-reviewed before publication.
- Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India
- The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is entrusted with the welfare, social justice and empowerment of disadvantaged and marginalised sections of Indian society: "scheduled caste, backward classes, persons with disabilities, aged persons, and victims of drug abuse etc." Basic objective of the policies, programmes, law and institution of the Indian welfar...
