- Are pensions that benefit the vast majority of older people more sustainable than safety nets?
- S. Kidd; E. Whitehouse / Development Pathways, 2009
- In principle, pension policy can provide security for older people who are in danger of falling into poverty. This paper argues that if the international community is serious about tackling old- age poverty, a social pension is the be...
- The consequences of population aging - governments must plan for a looming labour shortage
- D.K. Foot / Institute for Research on Public Policy, Canada, 2008
- The continued participation of older people in the economic life is a key factor to their own well-being as well as that of their nations on the whole. Covering Canada specifically, this paper looks at possible and appropriate policie...
- The developing world is “greying”: are its states prepared for the demographic shift?
- P. Shetty / The Lancet, 2012
- The proportion of older people is increasing in almost every country of the world but, by 2050, most will live in developing nations. This article wonders whether developing countries will be prepared for this demographic shift. ...
- Allowing people more freedom of choice regarding retirement timing - a good starting-point for aging policy reform
- D.E. Bloom; A. Boersch-Supan; P. McGee / Harvard School of Public Health, 2011
- Population ageing does raise some fundamentally new challenges, but these changes also bring some new opportunities. This article explores some potentially useful responses from government and business to the challenges posed by agein...
- Pension coverage among Latin America’s active workers is quite low - nonregistered workers must be “rescued”
- R. Rofman; M.L. Oliveri / World Bank, 2012
- Social security systems coverage in Latin America has become a central issue in the policy debate, not only in most of the countries in the region, but also around the world. This document presents an analysis of pension coverage tren...
- International data set on issues related to population, health, and the environment
- C. Haub; T. Kaneda / Population Reference Bureau, 2012
- This report informs people around the world about issues related to population, health, and the environment. The paper presents a complex picture of countries still struggling with economic challenges and inequalities, while others ar...
- Did the reduction of fertility in Peru lead to improvements in household welfare?
- T. Byker; I.A. Gutierrez / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
- In the mid-1990s, the Peruvian government initiated an aggressive family planning programme to address widespread poverty in the country, and female sterilisation was a publicly stated element of the programme. This paper tries to fin...
- Supporting older people and recognising their rights to decent work and social protection in the post-2015 era
- S. Beales; G.T. Long / HelpAge International, 2012
- Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recog...
- The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement
- A Meng 2010
- An analysis of the determinants of care provision, looking at informal care, professional home-based care and formal nursing care.
- The future of the public sector pensions: final report
- Pension Policy Institute, UK, 2010
- This report on the future of the public sector pension schemes identifies policy objectives that any Government considering further reforms to the public sector pensions might aim to address, identifies a set of possible further refor...
- International data set on issues related to population, health, and the environment
- C. Haub; T. Kaneda / Population Reference Bureau, 2012
- This report informs people around the world about issues related to population, health, and the environment. The paper presents a complex picture of countries still struggling with economic challenges and inequalities, while others ar...
- Did the reduction of fertility in Peru lead to improvements in household welfare?
- T. Byker; I.A. Gutierrez / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
- In the mid-1990s, the Peruvian government initiated an aggressive family planning programme to address widespread poverty in the country, and female sterilisation was a publicly stated element of the programme. This paper tries to fin...
- Supporting older people and recognising their rights to decent work and social protection in the post-2015 era
- S. Beales; G.T. Long / HelpAge International, 2012
- Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recog...
- The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement
- A Meng 2010
- An analysis of the determinants of care provision, looking at informal care, professional home-based care and formal nursing care.
- The future of the public sector pensions: final report
- Pension Policy Institute, UK, 2010
- This report on the future of the public sector pension schemes identifies policy objectives that any Government considering further reforms to the public sector pensions might aim to address, identifies a set of possible further refor...
- The impact of population ageing on international capital flows
- A Narciso / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010
- This paper studies the relationship between demographical factors and international capital flows. It analyses the impact of ageing on foreign direct investments (FDI) and foreign portfolio investments (FPI) on a bilateral level. Resu...
- Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995
- Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2012
- Formal old age care is a supplement to informal old age care and not its substitute, and it is increasingly being felt that the two forms of care should be woven together. This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension d...
- Swaziland old age grant impact assessment
- HelpAge International, 2010
- Cash transfers are increasingly seen as a popular form of social protection, representing a solution to reducing absolute poverty and food insecurity for vulnerable groups. The Swaziland Old Age Grant (OAG) was introduced in 2005 as a...
- Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies
- S Huenchuan / United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
- Two aspects of ageing of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean are of particular concern. One is that the population is ageing faster in the region than it did historically in developed countries. The other is the regional...
- In the care of the state and the family: understanding care of the elderly through macro and micro perspectives
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2009
- The provision of care for older people exists at macro (national) and micro (individual or family) levels. This paper argues that these different levels are not mutually exclusive. On the one hand, products of macro level national pol...
- Prison Reform Trust
- The Prison Reform Trust is an independent charity that seeks to: fund research into prison regimes and monitor prison conditions provide advice and information to prisoners and their families about the prison system educate the public about penal issues; and campaign for constructive prison regimes and more use of community penalties...
- New Dynamics of Ageing
- New Dynamics of Ageing Programme is a seven year multidisciplinary research initiative with the ultimate aim of improving quality of life of older people. The programme is a collaboration between five UK Research Councils - ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and AHRC.
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Boston College
- The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College promotes quality of employment as an imperative for the 21st century multi-generational workforce. The Centre's research agenda includes The Boston College National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development The Study of Health Insurance Costs and the Employment of Older Workers...
- AGE: the European Older People’s Platform
- AGE, the European Older People’s Platform, aims to voice and promote the interests of older people in the European Union and to raise awareness of the issues that concern them most. AGE is involved in a range of policy and information activities to put older people’s issues on the EU agenda and to support networking among older people’s groups. Among our guiding princ...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)
- The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is working to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that will transform the ageing experience. It is an international coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging-services organizations, businesses, research universities and government representatives working together under the auspices of...
- Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD)
- This project is undertaking comparative research on the multiple institutions of care (households and families; states; markets; and the not-for-profit sector), their gender composition and dynamics, and their implications for poverty and social rights of citizenship. It seeks to undertake empirical research on the care sector in different developing regions and to connect the analysis to some of...
- Research Committee 11 Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
- The Research Committee on Aging (RC 11) is one of 55 Research Committees of the International Sociological Association (ISA). The purpose of the Research Committee on Ageing is to encourage research of high quality on ageing within and between countries. While RC 11 develops its own programme of activities and scholarly presentations at meetings of the ISA and at special Inter-Congress meetings, i...
