South Africa and Ageing
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- State benefits for the elderly in Southern Africa
- L. Pelham / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
- Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Botswana comprise a cluster of southern African countries which provide monthly non-contributory benefits to their elderly citizens. Unlike in Western welfare states, these non-contributory pensions ...
- Survey on the importance of social pensions
- HelpAge International, 2006
- Pension Watch is a comprehensive survey of social (non-contributory) pension schemes in low and middle income countries. It looks at the feasibility, coverage, cost and impact of providing pensions. It also analyses the cost, coverage...
- The impact of the social pension scheme in South Africa
- A. Case; A. Deaton / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1996
- This paper critically examines the social pension system for the elderly in South Africa. The paper explores the impact of this cash transfer on allocation for food, schooling, transfers and savings. The paper begins by giving ...
- Future projections on the status of the elderly will help in forward policy planning
- A. I. Hermalin; M. B. Ofstedal; R. Tesfai / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2006
- This paper generates profiles of the elderly to 2050 on key characteristics for a set of thirteen developing countries that vary by region, size, economic level, and cultural traditions. Findings show dramatic shifts in the educationa...
- What effect are non-contributory pension schemes having in South Africa and Brazil?
- A. Barrientos / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2005
- This paper considers the incidence of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using comparable datasets the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimate...
- Poverty is high among the elderly in South Africa
- A. Noumbissi / Union for African Populations Studies, 2004
- This paper examines the socioeconomic status of the elderly, disaggregated by gender, by: comparing their level of education and labour force participation to other members of the society; examining disability among the elderly which ...
- Is policy responding to the needs of the elderly in Africa?
- I. Sembajwe / Union for African Populations Studies, 2004
- This paper examines the policy and programmatic measures taken so far by African countries to meet the needs of the elderly since 1994. Specifically, the paper: presents the progress made by countries in making policies and formulatin...
- Challenges to social assistance in South Africa
- M. Samson / Union for African Populations Studies, 2004
- This paper examines the concept and domains of social security as well as the demographic and social imperatives of the South African older population in relation to social security. It reviews the role of the government in the...
- Conference on social protection for the ageing population
- United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
- The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems. In Ses...
- Impact of non-contributory pensions upon the wellbeing, participation and security of older people
- HelpAge International, 2003
- Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes. Noncontributory pension programmes can be found in only a handful of developing coun...
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