- What factors determine contribution to government pension schemes in Chile?
- T.G. Packard / World Bank, 2002
- This paper seeks to address ways in which Chilean households and individuals respond to mitigating the risk of poverty in old age. It points out that structural factors limit certain groups’ access to saving and pooling i...
- How does the death of prime age adults affect the physical well-being of the elderly?
- M. Ainsworth; J. Dayton / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2001
- This paper is a product of the research project on “The economic impact of fatal adult illness due to AIDS and other causes in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The paper uses longitudinal household data from the Kagera Region of ...
- Ageing, intergenerational transfers of land and agricultural production
- D. Iaquinta; J. du Guerny; L. Stloukal / Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
- The paper considers: the question of whether the process of population ageing affects the ways in which land is passed on between members of different generations the likely implications of ageing-related chan...
- How can social policies could meet the needs and promote the rights of the elderly?
- R. Malhotra; N. Kabeer / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This paper reviews some of this literature on ageing in the Southern context, particularly those countries undergoing demographic transition. The analysis is organised around the concept of ‘inter-generational contract’, the...
- From pay as you go to funded pensions in Russia
- A Kuznetsov; O Ordin / Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2001
- This paper explores the best time for the transitionof the pay as you go PAYG pension system to a funded one, and to estimate the feasibility of such a transformation. It attempts to establish the rules for choosing an optimal ...
- Research proposal on HIV and ageing
- Agyarko Degraft; A. Kalache; P. Kowal / Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2000
- Outline of a WHO project to produce evidence on the problem and facilitate grass roots and macro-level partnerships that would ensure the support of older people as assets in all areas of care related to HIV/ AIDS.
- ILO policy statement on initiatives for ageing populations
- International Labour Organization, 2002
- Argues that the increasing proportion of the population aged 60 and over poses a growing policy challenge in both developed and developing countries. Creating millions of new jobs - in all sectors and especially among women, unemploye...
- Support for Thai parents looking after children with HIV/AIDS
- Chanpen Saengtienchai; J. Knodel / Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001
- This report is a qualitative analysis of the circumstances and consequences of parental caregiving to adult children with AIDS in Thailand based on open-ended interviews, primarily with parents of adult children who died of AIDS. ...
- Household reponses to AIDS in Thailand
- Im-em Wassana; Gary Suwannarat / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2002
- Looks at how individuals, families and communities cope with and respond to the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS, particularly outside the much-studied Northern Region. . It begins by briefly reviewing the influence of the on-g...
- Review of views and experiences of older people on old age issues
- HelpAge International, 2002
- Analyses the key challenges posed by ageing populations worldwide. It brings together research, statistics and older people's own views to provide insights into the ageing world. Data from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America an...
- How best to measure pension adequacy
- A.G. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2013
- Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the for...
- The design and implementation of public pension systems in developing countries: Issues and options
- Program on the Global Demography of Aging, 2013
- Developing countries are increasingly aware of the need to design and implement improvements in public systems for providing pensions to the elderly. Such systems may aim to smooth consumption and thus provide reliable income to older...
- China’s pension system: a vision
- World Bank, 2013
- China is facing a dramatic ageing process and demographic transition as a result of declines in fertility combined with significant increases in longevity. Old-age dependency ratios are therefore projected to almost triple over three ...
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- Asia’s demographic transition will adversely affect its economic growth
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that c...
- Rapid population ageing means challenges for Myanmar
- HelpAge International, 2013
- Myanmar’s population is beginning to age rapidly. According to UN projections, by 2050 older people will comprise a quarter of Myanmar’s total population. Shortly after 2035, persons aged 60 and older will outnumber ...
- Experiences of matching defined contribution pension schemes
- World Bank, 2013
- Matching defined contribution schemes are gaining popularity in both rich and poor countries as a promising means to reduce gaps in the participation in formal pension systems. Matching contributions by employers, the government, or b...
- Youthquake: will Melanesian democracy be sunk by demography?
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2010
- One area where there is similarity between the Middle East and Melanesia is demographics. Both have large, youthful populations that are tired of the status quo and leaders who have failed to manage change, including generational chan...
- Slowing population growth in Malawi is essential for poverty reduction strategies to work
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi, 2012
- Malawi adds over 400,000 people each year to its population. Without a reduction in the average number of births per woman, health, education and employment services will be overstretched. This trend will continue to challenge the cou...
- Old age support in rural China
- F. Cai; J. Giles; P.O. Keefe / World Bank, 2012
- Although average incomes in China have risen dramatically since the 1980s, concerns are increasing that the rural elderly have not benefited from growth to the same extent as younger people and the urban elderly. This book explores th...
- 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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