- EU aid guidelines uphold the rights of vulnerable groups, but older people’s rights are not mentioned
- HelpAge International, 2011
- Older people are some of the poorest of the world’s poor, where 100 million older men and women live on less than a dollar a day. This paper argues that the EU must rise to the challenge of poverty reduction by enabling older me...
- Did demographic transitions in South Asia automatically reflect as economic improvement?
- D.E. Bloom; D. Canning; L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
- Demographic change can make powerful contributions to economic growth. This has strong implications for understanding past growth in South Asia and assessing and shaping its future prospects. This paper attributes some of the im...
- The coming population changes offer most of South Asia an opportunity to benefit from a demographic dividend
- D.E. Bloom; L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2011
- If demographic change is to shed lights on a region’s future, what do we foresee for South Asian economies in 2060? This paper explores the economic prospects of South Asia from a demographic viewpoint. The paper find...
- Older women in India face marginalisation
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+). This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Livi...
- How to make humanitarian responses evidence-driven
- D. Mazurana (ed); P. Benelli (ed); H. Gupta (ed) / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011
- Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisis or emergency. As a result,...
- Family support mechanisms for Chinese elderly are linked to their children's geographical proximity
- X. Lei; J. Strauss; M. Tian; Y. Zhou / RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 2011
- Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially in light of the population policy implemented since the late 1970s, and rural young people moving away from p...
- Report compiled in preparation for the State of the World’s Older Persons 2012
- G. Gelber (ed) / HelpAge International, 2011
- The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration (Madrid Plan) were adopted in April 2002 by the 159 governments which attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid. Priority Directions decided ...
- Centre for Research in Economic Analysis
- Economic integration issues
- The Graying of AIDS
- Resources on HIV/AIDS and the elderly
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
- Pension reform in Argentina made positive outcomes in terms of growth, labour-market and poverty-improvement
- M.L. Alzua; H. Ruffo / Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2011
- In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accounts in the pension system over wages,...
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan need to unite contributory pensions and social assistance if the elderly are to be protected
- E. Mikkonen-Jeanneret; R. Rayapova; N. Yefimov (ed) / HelpAge International, 2011
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan face the simultaneous challenges of a ballooning informal labour force and an ageing population. Pension systems will have difficulty providing adequate social protection to future generations of older people...
- Natural disasters and political unrest in Sudan reinforce the need for stable social security systems
- I.A.W. Mohamed / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2011
- ‘Social Protection Floor’ means an access to essential services and social transfers for the poor and vulnerable. Sudan, the author of this report argues, embodies the necessity for such schemes. The paper shows that pover...
- Are old people more averse to immigration?
- L. Calahorrano / Philipps-University Marburg, 2011
- In the face of rising old-age dependency ratios in industrialised countries, the loosening of immigration policies is discussed as an option to ensure sustainability of public social security systems. However, the feasibility of this ...
- China and India will finance our ageing world
- L. Marchiori / Centre for Research in Economic Analysis, 2011
- Demographic projections for the 21st century indicate that population is ageing all over the world. This paper examines the impact of projected demographic trends on international capital flows. The document notes that in an in...
- Cost of universal pensions in developing countries is affordable
- C. Knox-Vydmanov / HelpAge International, 2011
- Social pensions are a vehicle for reducing the poverty of the population as a whole. This paper reviews the cost of universal pensions, suggesting that the cost of universal pensions in developing countries today is affordable. ...
- Are social protection management information systems only software and hardware?
- R. Chirchir; S. Kidd / HelpAge International, 2011
- Management information systems (MISs) are core to the design of social protection schemes. This working paper examines good practice in the design of MISs for social protection. The paper argues that discussions on the design and impl...
- Life expectancy at birth, country by country
- World Bank, 2011
- Country listing of life expectancy. Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
- Ageing and HIV in Africa
- Edward J Mills; Anu Rammohan; Niyi Awofeso / The Lancet, 2011
- This paper, published by The Lancet, contends that as the AIDS epidemic matures, evidence is emerging that poorly managed HIV infection exacerbates ageing diseases, leading to increased morbidity and mortality, and that exacerbated ch...
- The need for community-based home care for older people in South East Asia
- HelpAge International, 2011
- This paper outlines the growing need for community-based home care for older people in South East Asia. It explains the model of home care introduced by HelpAge Korea in collaboration with HelpAge International in the 10 countries of ...
- Towers Watson
- Business and financial consultancy
- AGE+
- Research on older migrant women in Europe
- Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population, McMaster University, Canada (QSEP)
- Populations and economics research
- Population Aging Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, Colorado
- Research on social, health and economic impacts of ageing
- Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado (IBS)
- Research on social behaviour
- Research Network on HIV/AIDS and the Elderly
- Impact of the HIV/AIDS on older persons
- Institute for Future Studies [Sweden]
- The Institute for Future Studies is a research foundation researching and providing long -range analyses on future threats to social development and related opportunities. In addition to research activities, the Institute publishes the magazine Framtider (a few English editions) and organises seminars and other activities open to the public. The current research programme, Society and the Futu...
- Harvard Initiative for Global Health
- Research facility concentrating on the following priority areas: AIDS Infectious Diseases (non-AIDS) Mental Health Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Related Risk Factors Demography of Aging Health Systems and Quality of Care Population Health Metrics and Analytics for Priority Setting
- Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity (PRIAE)
- Organisation working to improve the quality of life of black and minority ethnic (BME) elders in the UK and Europe, working with policy makers, mainstream providers and professionals, black and minority ethnic elders, community organisations and age related national and local organisations.
- AgeLine Database
- Database of materials on ageing
