- Proceedings from a seminar on ageing, poverty and the international development agenda
- HelpAge International, 2003
- This report addresses some of the challenges facing developing countries due to population ageing and inter-linking strategies required to meet the challenge. It advocates for greater support towards social protection for poor older p...
- Using the Post Office to deliver social protection to the Indian poor
- J. Farrington; N.C. Saxena; T. Barton; R. Nayak / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003
- India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies. However, implementat...
- Considering long-term risks in government decision-making
- P.S. Heller / Finance and Development, IMF, 2003
- This article analyses the fiscal consequences of a series of demographic, climate, economic, security and technological changes that all countries in the world are experiencing nowadays. It argues that in this changing context ...
- Global demographic trends from 1960s to 2001
- G. Shackman; Y.L. Liu; G. Wang / Global Social Change Research Project: Social, Economic and Political Change, 2003
- This review provides an outline of major world demographic characteristics and changes. Data is provided for more than 100 countries, and most cover time periods of 20 years or more. The results reported in the review are compa...
- Conference on social protection for the ageing population
- United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
- The UNRISD conference examined the opportunities, problems and challenges of effective social protection for older people, including formal public policies and more informal strategies, such as household support systems. In Ses...
- How does population age structure affect economic growth?
- K. Navaneetham / Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002
- This paper looks at the nature and process of age structural transition in the countries of South and Southeast Asia and its influence on economic growth. Age structural transition is a process and consequence of shifting age structur...
- 'Learning communities' the key to education and lifelong learning for all
- R-M. Torres / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003
- This paper is the result of a study commissioned by Sida on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several lang...
- Can the welfare state yield to trade liberalisation?
- P. M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper addresses the impact of liberalisation on social security arrangements in India and measures the effect of opening up various sectors to private participation. It looks at the growth of informal economy after liberalisation...
- Due to the spread of HIV, often the middle generation of families is completely absent, leaving the old and young to support each other
- HelpAge International, 2003
- This report shows that - provided appropriate support is available - older people and orphans and vulnerable children can overcome some of the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The case studies featured in this report ...
- Impact of non-contributory pensions upon the wellbeing, participation and security of older people
- HelpAge International, 2003
- Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes. Noncontributory pension programmes can be found in only a handful of developing coun...
- Reducing women’s risk of poverty in old age.
- A. Cox Edwards / Gendernet, World Bank, 2001
- Change in the demographic composition of the population of Chile will likely exhaust traditional support systems of the elderly, and increase the relative importance of life-time savings, including social-security benefits. Thus, a po...
- Options for pensions in an ageing Chinese population
- Y. Wang; D. Xu; Z. Wang; F. Zhai / World Bank, 2001
- Using a newly designed Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model that differentiates among three types of enterprise ownership and 22 labour force groups, this study estimates the effects of China's pension reform and compares variou...
- Husbands still have final say on family planning issues
- M. Francis-Chizororo; N. Wekwete; M. Matshaka / Family Health International, 1999
- Explores the roles of husbands and mothers-in-law in reproductive decision-making and women’s participation in development. It addresses the question of whether women and their families believe lower fertility should enable young...
- Aging Trends: South Africa
- International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1997
- This report summarizes the major demographic aspects affecting the aging of the South African population and highlights several socioeconomic characteristics that affect the wellbeing of older persons.
- Gender and aging: demographic dimensions
- International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1997
- Women are the majority of the older population in virtually all nations and face different circumstances and challenges than men as they age. Older women are more likely to be widowed, to live alone, and to live in poverty. Older wome...
- Old age security reform in China
- International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1995
- China is undertaking a major revamping of its old age security system because it is faced with a falling proportion of workers to pensioners, declining income replacement levels, precarious and diminishing coverage of the labor force ...
- Pension reform in Latin America : quick fixes or sustainable reform?
- Sri-Ram Aiyer / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Pension reform and private pension funds in Peru and Colombia
- Monika Queisser / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Pension reform in Bolivia : innovative solutions to common problems
- Hermann Von Gersdorff / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- The Argentine pension reform and its relevance for Eastern Europe
- Dimitri Vittas / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Discussion of the reforms undertaken in the Latin American pension system and the relevance of the Argentine experience to Eastern European countries.
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi
- The Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation is Malawi Government's main planning agency responsible for national economic and development planning, and monitoring and evaluation of socio-economic issues in the country. Its main mandate is to provide professional advice and technical support to Government and the public on economic and social policy development and management so as to achi...
- 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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