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Policies and legislation, data and research, and institutional arrangements relating to older persons - progress since Madrid

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What progress has been made in the three priroty areas of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing - namely older persons and development, advancing health and well-being into old age, and ensuring enabling and supportive environments? This report, assessing the implementation to date of the Madrid Plan, will also contribute to the publication of the State of the World’s Older Persons 2012 report.

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Developing Asia’s Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support: Asian Development Bank Institute , 2012; Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and Southeast Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pens...
Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China: Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2012; Older people sufer height shrinkage during ageing. Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outc...
Population Ageing and the Non-communicable Diseases: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2012; Susceptibility to Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) increases with age. As populations age, NCDs cause a growing proportion of all deaths. Rapid reductions in fertility combined with improvements in su...
Policy planning for an ageing population: World Economic Forum, 2012; If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburde...
Ageing, Solidarity and Social Protection: Time to Move Towards Equality: United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , 2012; This document analyses the outlook for population ageing and advocates mainstreaming this issue into the public agenda. It introduces its central theme of equality and ageing. Concepts are presented a...
What is the Role of Social Pensions in Asia?: A. Barrientos / Asian Development Bank Institute , 2012; There is growing interest among policymakers in the potential role of noncontributory transfers as an instrument to address a variety of policy challenges, including old age poverty and vulnerability,...
Impact Assessment of Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in India (2011/2012): Agewell Foundation, 2012; Review of the impacts of the MIPAA in terms of what actions the Government of India has undertaken in the ten years since the plan was approved. The report argues that whilst the population of older p...
A global view on demographic pressure and labour market participation: L. Groot / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2011; Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio - the ratio of person...