- Safety Nets and Transfers: Social assistance, social funds, pensions, and employment programs
- PovertyNet, World Bank, 1998
- Introduction to the role of safety nets and transfers in providing short-term protection food, health and income protection to the most vulnerable of the poor. Explains what safety net programs are, who needs them, and how to design t...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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