- 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...
- Disability of Older Koreans: Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets
- J. Kim / RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 2010
- This paper investigates how educational attainment may affect the prevalence of disability among older Koreans, a population for whom the association between health and education has been little studied. It performs descriptive and lo...
- From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional Cash transfers in welfare state Development in Latin America
- F Bastagli / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- Since the early 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. CCTs share three components in common: a cash transfer, a targetin...
- Impact of HIV and AIDS on the elderly: A case study of Chiladzulu district
- A P. Sefasi / Malawi Medical Journal, 2012
- HIV may affect the elderly in a number of ways. They may become infected themselves; their children may suffer prolonged illness and incapacity, and need the elderly to look after them; the same children may then die from the illness,...
- Nutrition and baseline survey of older people in three refugee camps in Dadaab
- HelpAge International, 2011
- This report of a survey in camps in north-eastern Kenya shows that older people are vulnerable to malnutrition but often not recognised as such. It recommends how to measure older people’s nutritional status.
- Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
- J.E. Cohen / Center for Global Development, USA, 2010
- The century from 1950 to 2050 will have witnessed the highest global population growth rate ever, the largest voluntary fall in the global population growth rate ever, and the most enormous demographic shift ever between the more deve...
- Disability of Older Koreans: Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets
- J. Kim / RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 2010
- This paper investigates how educational attainment may affect the prevalence of disability among older Koreans, a population for whom the association between health and education has been little studied. It performs descriptive and lo...
- From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional Cash transfers in welfare state Development in Latin America
- F Bastagli / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- Since the early 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. CCTs share three components in common: a cash transfer, a targetin...
- Impact of HIV and AIDS on the elderly: A case study of Chiladzulu district
- A P. Sefasi / Malawi Medical Journal, 2012
- HIV may affect the elderly in a number of ways. They may become infected themselves; their children may suffer prolonged illness and incapacity, and need the elderly to look after them; the same children may then die from the illness,...
- Nutrition and baseline survey of older people in three refugee camps in Dadaab
- HelpAge International, 2011
- This report of a survey in camps in north-eastern Kenya shows that older people are vulnerable to malnutrition but often not recognised as such. It recommends how to measure older people’s nutritional status.
- Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
- J.E. Cohen / Center for Global Development, USA, 2010
- The century from 1950 to 2050 will have witnessed the highest global population growth rate ever, the largest voluntary fall in the global population growth rate ever, and the most enormous demographic shift ever between the more deve...
- Making migration a development factor: the case of North and West Africa
- International Labour Organization, 2010
- Migration can be a positive factor in the development of countries of origin through two main channels - remittances and return migration. But, in looking at five countries (Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia) this repo...
- Civil Service and Military Pension Reforms in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
- M. G. Asher 2011
- The 2008 Global Crisis and demographic trends in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore has increased the urgency of reforming their pension systems for enhancing financial, fiscal, and economic sustainability over a long period, and miti...
- Simulations of long-term returns and replacement rates in the Colombian pension system
- J. Alonso / BBVA Research, 2010
- This study is a theoretical exercise for Colombia that aims to simulate a variety of scenarios under a hypothetical scheme similar to the pension multi-funds currently in operation in Chile, Mexico and Peru.
- The Demographic Dividend: Evidence from the Indian States
- S. Aiyar / International Monetary Fund, 2011
- Large cohorts of young adults are poised to add to the working-age population of developing economies. Despite much interest in the consequent growth dividend, the size and circumstances of the potential gains remain under-explored. T...
- Institutional care for older people in developing countries: under the policy radar? The case of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- N. Redondo / University of East Anglia, 2011
- Many developing countries are seeing a rapid growth of residential care homes for older people. In the main, these are small-scale, informal and entirely unregulated. This raises serious concerns about the wellbeing and rights of olde...
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
- Kwa Wazee
- Organisation working with the elderly to promote pension programmes in Tanzania. Kwa Wazee, which started in November 2003 with a very small number of beneficiaries, has since aradually extended to over 300 grandmothers, who were caring for over 400 orphans by the end of 2005. Feedback from the elderly beneficiaries, as well as by observers in their neighbourhoods, shows that even the m...
- Asian Productivity Organization (APO)
- Regional intergovernmental organisation. Its mission is to contribute to the socioeconomic development of Asia and the Pacific through enhancing productivity. The APO is nonpolitical, nonprofit, and nondiscriminatory.
- Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging
- MEA is a research institute and part of the Faculty of Law and Economics, Department of Economics of Mannheim University. It aims to evaluate, anticipate and accompany the micro- and macroeconomic aspects of demographic change.
- African Econometric Society (AES)
- The African Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Members of the society are associated with academic instutions, and the private and public sectors who share the goal of advancing econometric research, especially but not limited to African themes.
- PHI
- Advocacy and policy advisory organisation covering carework. PHI works to improve the lives of people who need home or residential care by improving the lives of the workers who provide that care. Our goal is to ensure caring, stable relationships between consumers and workers, so that both may live with dignity, respect and independence. PHI’s programme activities develop recruitment, train...
- National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra (NATSEM)
- NATSEM is a research centre associated with the University of Canberra that undertakes research and analysis specialising in the use of microdata and microsimulation modelling to address ongoing and emerging research agendas and client demand and contribute to and enhance social, economic and business decision making. It aims to steer microsimulation modelling in Australia beyond its tr...
- Research on Aging
- International bimonthly journal. Research on Aging is an interdisciplinary journal designed to reflect the expanding role of research in the field of social gerontology. Research on Aging exists to provide for publication of research in the broad range of disciplines concerned with ageing. Scholars from the disciplines of sociology, geriatrics, history, psychology, anthropology, public health, eco...
- AARP Public Policy Institute (AARP PPI)
- AARP Policy & Research features authoritative information on issues affecting the 50+ population. Its expanding collection of research publications, speeches, legal briefs and opinion pieces seeks to provide deeper insight and fresh perspectives to opinion leaders, scholars and other professional audiences. PPI guides and informs AARP’s public policy advocacy through peer-reviewed public...
- WorldGranny
- Dutch NGO working to campaigning on issues affecting the elderly worldwide.
