- The Grandmother Project
- The Grandmother Project (GMP) is an international development organisation working globally to improve the health and well being of women and children. Areas of focus: Maternal and child nutrition and health Early childhood development Water and sanitation Education Female genital mutilation...
- Automating cash transfer payments in Africa
- Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2010
- Delivery of cash transfers typically involves a compromise between the cost of reaching recipients literally at the door of their homes, and the savings from providing them at a central point to which recipients must travel to re...
- Response to "Targeting Social Cash Transfers" comment
- C. Gorical / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2009
- Responding to the paper Targeting Social Cash Transfers comment, (on the process of defining target groups and designing the targeting mechanism for the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme), the author of this response suggests that th...
- World Demographic and Ageing Forum, WDA Forum
- The WDA Forum addresses topics of vital interest to worldwide leaders from the political arena, the business community, non-governmental organisations, and academic circles, as well as the public at large. Its main events are the yearly World Ageing & Generations Congress, which constitutes a global platform for an exchange of opinions and experiences and the development of specific solutions,...
- Ageing might not have much effect on economic growth if private and public sectors adjust to newly emerging societal structures
- D.E. Bloom; D. Canning; G. Fink / Harvard School of Public Health, 2010
- This article examines the nature and magnitude of population forecasts and reviews evidence on the effects of population ageing on national economic performance. Although population ageing is certainly occurring and will have potentia...
- How eligibility rules affect access to pensions In Latin America
- A. Forteza; I. Apella; E. Fajnzylber / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2010
- This paper proposes alternative methods to project pension rights and implement these methods in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The paper indicates that the histories of contribution required to access pensions are apparently unattaina...
- How increasing old-age pension provision impacts on retirement decisions in a poor country
- A.M. Danzer / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2010
- Although a number of emerging countries have successfully introduced non-contributory pensions with broad coverage, very little is known about the labour market and retirement effects of pension systems in the developing world. Lookin...
- How to build more a sustainable pension for future generations
- D.C. John; R. Levine / Retirement Security Project, Brookings, 2010
- Americans today face precarious retirement prospects that have only been made worse by the recession that began in 2007. The US social security system will only be solvent until 2019, after which it will spend more in benefits than it...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- Health Disparities Program, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
- The Health Disparities Program is a resource for policymakers, planners, advocates, researchers and the media in understanding the unique health concerns of populations challenged by gaps in health and health care quality along racial, ethnic or socio-economic lines. The Program is particularly noted for its in-depth analysis, research and technical assistance on the health issues and concer...
- The importance of social protection systems in encouraging fairer division of paid and unpaid work
- United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
- This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different stat...
- The example of a universal social pension in Zanzibar could become a model for other countries in East Africa
- A. Pearson / HelpAge International, 2009
- Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors. But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing...
- Provision of home and community-based care for the disabled elderly in Israel
- H. Schmid / Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
- Concerns about the implications of population ageing and the size of the elderly population with disabilities led Israel to began to implement its Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) Law fully in 1988. Even though Israel is re...
- Demands to reduce the use of antipsychotics for people with dementia
- S. Banerjee / Department of Health, UK, 2009
- There have been increasing concerns over the past years about the use of these drugs in dementia. The findings of this review confirms that there are indeed significant issues in terms of quality of care and patient safety. These drug...
- Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments
- M.J. Prince; D. Acosta; E. Castro-Costa; J. Jackson; K.S. Shaji / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
- Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low. This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, rev...
- Will continuing scientific advances boost overall health care spending?
- H.J. Aaron / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
- Many studies argue that projections of health care spending should be based on the assumption that age-specific health care spending should be assumed to decline because of reductions in age-specific mortality rates. This paper contra...
- Involving the elderly in climate change policy making
- G. Haq; J. Whitelegg; M. Kohler / Stockholm Environment Institute, 2009
- Climate change and an ageing population bring together two key policy challenges which need to be addressed to ensure a safe, secure, equitable and sustainable future. to, and casualties of, climate change as well as potential campaig...
- Increasing Guaranteed Income Supplement - an ideal way to stimulate the economy
- M. Townson / Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2009
- This paper sets out some of the problems with Canada's pension system and outlines some of the options that have been proposed to deal with them. The paper clarifies that Canada's pension system consists of three tiers. Th...
- Creating a suitability standard for reverse mortgages and equity conversion products
- T. Twomey; R. Jurgens / National Consumer Law Center, 2009
- This paper claims that the consumer protections built into the old reverse mortgages programme are being eclipsed by the drive to exploit senior home equity by major banks and insurance companies, among others. The paper indicates tha...
- How to ensure that the entitlements of both older people and migrant carers are upheld
- K. Walsh; E. O’Shea / The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, 2009
- The proportion of migrant carers caring for Irish older people has increased over recent years, reflecting a broader global trend in care worker migration and thus, a highly competitive global market for migrant carers. How...
- Global Action on Aging
- International grassroots citizen group that works on issues of concern to older people. It reports on older people's needs and potential within the world economy, and it advocates with and for older people worldwide. Services include: Global Aging Network - linking together activities in the ageing field worldwide, by means of fax and e-mail. It provides regular news and a series...
- United Nations Programme on Ageing
- Programme aiming to develop a worldwide research agenda on ageing to assist policy responses to population and individual ageing, particularly in developing countries. Programme promotes the concept of and is creating a policy framework for "a society for all ages", which emerged as part of the Programme of Action adopted at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995. Departme...
- Asia Development Research Forum (ADRF)
- Works to facilitate networking among Asian development research and policy insitutions
- HelpAge International
- Campaign organisation on ageing matters
- VENA Library and Information Services (VENA LIS)
- Bibliographical database on feminist anthropology
- Population Index
- Online version of the printed quarterly demographic bibliography "Population Index". Full contents of all issues from 1986 to date are currently available. Each issue is indexed geographically and by author.
