- Report of Oslo conference on ageing issues and urban living
- Ageing Society, 2003
- Over the next 25 years, some 70 million people will retire in OECD countries, to be replaced by just 5 million new workers. This contrasts strongly with the past 25-year period, in which 45 million new pensioners were replaced in the ...
- Global aging is pushing much of the developed world towards fiscal and economic meltdown
- R. Jackson; N. Howe / Global Aging Initiative Program, 2003
- Document assesses the “vulnerability” of the developed countries to rising old-age dependency costs. In this first edition, the Index covers twelve countries - Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the N...
- Social security and pension provision in Bulgaria
- G. Shopov / Club 'Economika 2000', Bulgaria, 2002
- Why and how has the pension system been modernised in Bulgaria? This paper considers how economic, social and political needs for modernising pension policy and for reforming the pension system in Bulgaria was pronounced at the beginn...
- Guide on interviewing and counselling skills for NGOs
- M. Moynihan / Network Learning, 2001
- This document, available in English, French and Somali, is aimed at people working with and wishing to improve their skills in interviewing and counselling. It provides practical information on interviewing and counselling for a numbe...
- The majority of people who die from AIDS in Thailand rely on parental care
- J. Knodel; C. Saengtienchai; W. Im-em; M. VanLandingham / Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2000
- This report assesses the involvement of parents in Thailand in the caregiving and living arrangements of adult AIDS cases and the economic impact on the families and parents through expenditures on treatments and other routes. Intervi...
- How does caring for and losing adult children to AIDS affect elderly parents in Thailand?
- J. Knodel; W. Im-em / Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2002
- This report examines the economic consequences for parents of losing an adult child to AIDS in Thailand with emphasis on the effects of parental caregiving. The analysis is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative data d...
- Redistributing the pension balance in Brazil
- M. Bonturi / Ageing Society, 2002
- Brazil’s public pension expenditure is about 9 per cent of GDP, above the OECD average. Given that OECD countries are generally not only wealthier, but also significantly older, Brazil’s pension expenditures are clearly exce...
- Informal sector workers - the ninety percent of the working population in India who do not have any kind of social protection
- P. M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise....
- Asia and the Pacific is the most rapidly ageing region of the world. A strategy on how to prepare society for the challenges of ageing is essential in ensuring that the goals of active ageing are achieved
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2002
- Regional implementation strategy aiming to provide guidelines on the implementation of commitments on ageing made under the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing 2002 and the Macao Plan of Action on Ageing for Asia and the Pac...
- Survey conducted to review the current situation of older persons in the Asian and Pacific region and analyse future directions for a regional strategy for the implementation of international, regional and national commitments on ageing
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2002
- Background document for the Asia-Pacific Seminar on Regional Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Shanghai, 23-26 September 2002. The findings and analysis contained in the report are based on information available...
- Investing U.S. social security trust fund assets in private securities
- Michael P Leidy / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Reform of the Canada Pension Plan : analytical considerations
- Charles Kramer; Yutong Li / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Saving in Southeast Asia and Latin America compared : searching for policy lessons
- Anuradha Dayal-Gulati; C. Thimann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper analyses empirical determinants of private saving for a sample of Southeast Asian and Latin American economies over the period 1975.95. Saving rates in Southeast Asia have been on an upward trend over the period, while in L...
- 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...
- HelpAge - job vacancies
- Jobs with HelpAge
- Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Research centre on ageing issues
- Centre for Research in Economic Analysis
- Economic integration issues
- The Graying of AIDS
- Resources on HIV/AIDS and the elderly
