- Impact of HIV on older people and the implications for policies
- HelpAge International, 2003
- The purpose of this paper is to explore the main ways in which HIV and AIDS impact on older women and men in developing countries. It also reviews the research, programme and policy implications of including older people in current an...
- How AIDS/HIV in others affects the lives of the older propulation
- J. Knodel; S. Watkins; M. VanLandingham / Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
- The impact of the worldwide AIDS epidemic on persons age 50 and over has received relatively little consideration except in the United States where interest has focused almost exclusively on older persons living with AIDS or at risk o...
- African social care structures and networks
- K. Dixon-Fyle / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This paper looks at Africa’s traditional practices of care for infants, children and the elderly, and at how people and policy are struggling to cope with massive change. The argues that Africa has more to gain from taking...
- Manual covering methods for needs assessment for the elderly
- National Resource Center on Native American Aging, 2002
- Online training manual on how to conduct an effective needs assessment for the elderly. Manual looks at principles behind holding an assessment, methods for conducting assessments, collecting and analysing data, conducting focu...
- Health and care issues of ageing Native Americans
- L. A. McDonald; R. L. Ludtke; A. Allery / National Resource Center on Native American Aging, 2002
- Testimony submitted to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Key findings include: life expectancy and health status: life expectancies for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are low relative to the general populati...
- Why is the World Bank pushing for private funded pension systems?
- D. Baker; D. Kar / International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2003
- Over the last decade, more than a dozen countries in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe have partially or completely replaced public pay-as-you-go pension systems with funded systems managed by private financial institutions...
- Teaching practises in geriatric medicine
- I. Keller; A. Makipaa; T. Kalenscher; A. Kalache / Teaching Geriatrics in Medical Education, 2002
- Report of joint WHO and IFMSA study, Teaching Geriatrics in Medical Education (TeGeME), aimed at assessing the existing teaching practises in geriatric medicine around the world. The report concludes that most of the health car...
- Demography is pushing Germany toward a major crisis.
- R. Jackson / Global Aging Initiative Program, 2003
- Like the rest of the developed world, Germany is being overtaken by an unprecedented demographic revolution called global aging. It’s the result of two forces: falling fertility and rising longevity. This report takes a close loo...
- Population statistics from the United Nations
- United Nations Population Division, 2003
- Statistics and forecasts on population changes, looking at World population trends, fertility, the demographic impact of HIV/AIDS and population ageing. Population estimates and projections suggest that for the first time, futu...
- Call for Action aimed at the prevention of elder abuse
- Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2002
- Declaration aiming to to raise awareness of the abuse of human rights of older people and points to be considered for improvement. Highlighted areas include: lack of proper legal instruments to respond and deal with eld...
- Social Welfare in East Asia: Low Public Spending but Low Income Inequality?
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- “Light” welfare states were perceived by some as one source of East Asian economic dynamism. Paper examines the strengths of several East Asian social welfare systems and the challenges they face after the financial crisis. ...
- Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare
- D. Jacobs / Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998
- Overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data a...
- New Systems for Old Age Security: Theory, Practice, and Empirical Evidence
- E. James / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Initial empirical investigations suggest that countries concerned about growth should consider pension reform a potentially powerful tool for improving the welfare of both old and young. James summarizes the major findings and ...
- Pension Reform: Is There a Tradeoff between Efficiency and Equity?
- E. James / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- The pension reforms being undertaken in Latin America seem to be improving efficiency and growth, but they should also be designed to improve equity. It is possible for pension reform to improve both equity and efficiency - producing ...
- Poverty and Social Transfers in Hungary
- C. Grootaert / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Hungary's social safety net could be improved to better target benefits to the poor. Among the possibilities for reform: abolish the child care allowance and fee, institute new child care benefits, and improve means testing for social...
- From Generosity to Sustainability - The Austrian Pension System and Options for its Reform
- Manfred Koch; Christian Thimann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Austria is probably the world.s leader in pension expenditures.not because of its demographic structure but because of the generosity of its pension system. Contributors can obtain 80 percent of the average of their 15 best years of i...
- The Reform of the Pension System in Italy
- A Javier Hamann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- A fundamental reform of the Italian pension system was enacted in August 1995 with the approval of Law 355. The law modified substantially the mechanism for computing retirement benefits, merged the old-age and seniority pension schem...
- Social indicators tables
- United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 1999
- Series of tables of indictators, extracted from UN publications (mostly from Wistat) covering population, child-bearing, youth and elderly populations, education, human settlements, literacy, water supply and sanitation, income and ec...
- Aging in the Asian "tigers" : challenges for fiscal policy
- Peter S Heller / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The paper assesses the timing and magnitude of the government expenditure effects arising from the changing demographics and evolving medical demands of the Asian Tiger economies. With some exceptions, and unlike the industrial countr...
- Income distribution and social expenditure in Brazil
- Benedict J Clements / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper examines trends in income distribution in Brazil and the determinants of income inequality, including social expenditure. The distribution of income in Brazil is among the most unequal in the world and also highly skewed re...
- 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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