- Effects of domestic arrangements on the welfare on Indian elderly
- S. Pal / Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2004
- This paper examines the pattern of living arrangements among male and female elderly family members in India, using National Sample Survey data and derives implications for children as old age security in rural India. The burden of ca...
- Database of bibliographic citations of publications on ageing issues
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2004
- Searchable database of citations for all currently identified articles, books, dissertations and related literature that has used data resources currently archived within the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) at t...
- Family care issues for the elderly within the UK's ethnic population
- S. Harper; S. Levin / Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2003
- This paper discusses changing demographics within the UK, looks at new government policy on promoting independent living and its implications for family care provision, and reviews current understanding of family care and support for ...
- Income study of elderly in five OECD countries
- J. M. Williamson; T. M. Smeeding / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2004
- This article examines the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a focus on older women. The study is a cross-national comparison of five OECD countries (Australia, Canada, UK, USA, Sweden...
- Falling poverty and better health amongst the elderly has changed their role in society
- A.A. Camarano / Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2002
- This paper examines the familial arrangements, health condition, economic activity and income of those aged over 60 in Brazil, using data from the General Household Surveys of 1981 and 1999. Its findings include that: ...
- How has the new approach to public pensions in Latin America fared?
- I. S. Gill; T. G Packard ; J. Yermo / World Bank, 2004
- This study assesses the region's experience with structural reforms to social security. Purely defined benefit, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) public pension systems - in which the pensions paid to the elderly are financed by taxes paid by curr...
- Future options for long term care products and services for the elderly in Japan
- O. S. Mitchell; J. Piggott; S. Shimizutani / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004
- This study explores economic aspects of the market for long term care (LTC) with a special focus. It describes the LTC system in Japan as presently implemented, and highlights some aspects of the program that are novel and potentially...
- Improving pension schemes in South Asia
- I.S. Rajan; G. Gunatilleke; M. Perera / South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2003
- This study proposes to identify the modalities of a comprehensive pension and social security scheme for the elderly population in South Asia, from the experience of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The major objectives of the study a...
- Responses to the pensions crises in major OECD countries
- J. Bongaarts / Population Council, USA, 2004
- The first part of this study identifies the four factors that determine trends in public pension expenditures: population aging pension benefit levels the mean age at retirement the labour for...
- Comprehensive retirement coverage in Sri Lanka can only be achived via redistributive policies that transfer income to non-workers
- N. Gaminiratne / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper addresses the following issues: what are the expected demographic developments in Sri Lanka? what is the current status of the elderly relative to other groups? what are the current systems ...
- Poverty, inequality, and social policy in transition economies
- Branko Milanovic / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- What happens to poverty and income inequality during the early period of transition to a market economy? Poverty is on the rise, and income inequality widens. Better targeting of social assistance and pension reform are the necessary ...
- Financial history : lessons of the past for reformers of the present
- Gerard Caprio; Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The environment in which financial institutions operate has changed greatly, but the history of financial development offers important lessons for today. Among the lessons financial history offers: Macroeconomic stabilit...
- Thrift deposit institutions in Europe and the United States
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The history of development of U.S. and European thrift deposit institutions (banking for the poor) yields lessons for today's developing countries. The financial systems in most developing countries today have many features in ...
- The development of industrial pensions in the United States during the twentieth century
- Samuel H. Williamson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- A survey of the development of pensions in the United States, addressing such issues as what employees want from pensions, what incentives the employer has to create pensions, and what desirable effects industrial pensions have on the...
- Sequencing social security, pension and insurance reform
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- The full benefits of social security reform will not be realized until social pension systems are restructured and downsized, contribution rates lowered, and the scope for private pension funds (voluntary or mandatory) increased. Refo...
- Protecting the old and promoting growth : a defense of averting the old age crisis
- Estelle James / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- A summary of recommendations in the recent World Bank report on old age security programs, and an analysis of why the International Labour Organisation and the International Social Security Association came to different policy conclus...
- Averting the Old Age Crisis: Technical Annex
- R.J. Palacios / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Supporting documentation for the World Bank publication Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth (1994). Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth, the public...
- Social insurance in the transition to a market economy : theoretical issues with application to Moldova
- Deborah Mabbett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- What is the proper mix of social insurance and social assistance in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union? Social security systems in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union devote most of th...
- Private pension funds in Hungary : early performance and regulatory issues
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- The early performance of Hungary's voluntary private pension funds suggests that concerns about Hungary's ability to implement successful pension reform may be exaggerated. Despite the limited scope resulting from the high payr...
- Pensions in Germany
- Monika Queisser / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- Germany's pension system has a multipillar structure and relies increasingly on privately funded plans. Its public pillar is not as generous or redistributive as is often claimed. Germany's pension system was originally designe...
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- University of Western Australia
- Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Meeting on the Second Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2012
- Review of Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
- Department of Economics, Towson University
- Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
- CARDI is a not for profit organisation developed by leaders from the ageing field across Ireland (North and South) including age focused researchers, academics, statutory, voluntary and community sector representatives. It aims to advocate for and advance the ageing research agenda by identifying, coordinating, stimulating, and communicating strategic research on ageing and older peopl...
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