India and Ageing
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- 'Learning communities' the key to education and lifelong learning for all
- R-M. Torres / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003
- This paper is the result of a study commissioned by Sida on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several lang...
- Can the welfare state yield to trade liberalisation?
- P. M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper addresses the impact of liberalisation on social security arrangements in India and measures the effect of opening up various sectors to private participation. It looks at the growth of informal economy after liberalisation...
- Addressing the social security burden of India's ageing population
- R.K.A. Subrahmanya / International Social Security Association, 2003
- This paper examines India’s social security problems in relation to its ageing population and offers suggestions of how this may become less of a burden. The paper demonstrates that there are at present several schemes for...
- Informal sector workers - the ninety percent of the working population in India who do not have any kind of social protection
- P. M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise....
- How the old view their lives - comparing attitudes in India and South Africa
- United Nations Population Fund, 2002
- In order to sharpen international focus on some of the key operational challenges faced by older people today, UNFPA commissioned a pilot study in South Africa and India. The study methodology entailed a literature review, including a...
- HelpAge India
- HelpAge International, 1999
- HelpAge India has changed its orientation from implementing welfare projects to those that focus on development. It now lays stress on income-generation and microcredit projects that enable the participation of older persons in the ma...
- Practical implications of the population ageing
- I. J. Prakash / Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 1999
- With no nation-wide registry of older people and community based data on morbidity not readily available, the absence of reliable and continuous sources of data on India makes the task of researchers difficult. Paper gives over...
- 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...
