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- The Impact of Social Protection on Children
- K. Brock / Young Lives, 2010
- Social protection policies in developing countries are an increasingly widespread method for tackling chronic poverty and vulnerability and helping families manage risk. Particular schemes often provide cash, paid work or food to poor...
- 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 pension systems in the People’s R...
- 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, rapid population ageing, the effe...
- 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 persons in India is increasing rapi...
- Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe
- G. A. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2011
- Spurred by the ageing transition, many governments have made wide-ranging reforms, dramatically changing Europe?s pensions landscape. Nevertheless there remain concerns about future costs, while unease about adequacy is growing. This ...
- Bargaining with grandma: the impact of the South African pension on household decision making
- K Ambler / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2011
- The expansion of the South African old age pension is interesting to economists firstly because extent to which this money effectively increases the well-being of those who receive it is an important question for a policymaking, but a...
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD ...
- Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form
- R. Alves de Mesquita; G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
- In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while ...
- Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty
- Young Lives, 2011
- Working papers from the Young Lives study. Papers below date from 2010-2011. Please see the site for further selection of papers dating back to 2002. 'I'd rather be hit with a stick...Grades are sacred'...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
- The Impact of Social Protection on Children
- K. Brock / Young Lives, 2010
- Social protection policies in developing countries are an increasingly widespread method for tackling chronic poverty and vulnerability and helping families manage risk. Particular schemes often provide cash, paid work or food to poor...
- 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 pension systems in the People’s R...
- 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, rapid population ageing, the effe...
- 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 persons in India is increasing rapi...
- Assessing the sustainability of pension reforms in Europe
- G. A. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2011
- Spurred by the ageing transition, many governments have made wide-ranging reforms, dramatically changing Europe?s pensions landscape. Nevertheless there remain concerns about future costs, while unease about adequacy is growing. This ...
- Bargaining with grandma: the impact of the South African pension on household decision making
- K Ambler / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2011
- The expansion of the South African old age pension is interesting to economists firstly because extent to which this money effectively increases the well-being of those who receive it is an important question for a policymaking, but a...
- Pensions in Asia and the Pacific
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012
- In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to enhance interaction between OECD ...
- Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form
- R. Alves de Mesquita; G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011
- In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while ...
- Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty
- Young Lives, 2011
- Working papers from the Young Lives study. Papers below date from 2010-2011. Please see the site for further selection of papers dating back to 2002. 'I'd rather be hit with a stick...Grades are sacred'...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
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