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  World Population Policies 2005

  United Nations Population Division, 2006

  This publication shows, on a country-by-country basis, the evolution of Government views and policies from 1976 to 2005 with respect to population size and growth, population age structure, fertility and family planning, health and mortality, spatial distribution and international migration.For developing countries, the large size of the working age population, high adolescent fertility, low li
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  Long-term immigration projection methods: current practice and how to improve it

  Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2006

  Assumptions about international migration are an increasingly important component of demographic projections.
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  On the agenda: older migrant women: facts, figures, personal stories : an inventory in five EU Countries

  AGE+, 2005

  This reports summarises key findings on the situation of older migrant women in the five participating countires of the AGE+ project - the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy.The report argues that older migrant women belong to a vulnerable group. Statistically they are hardly visible and their lives go practically unnoticed.
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  Growing up global: the changing transitions to adulthood in developing countries

  National Academies Press, 2005

  This paper examines how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries, and what the implications of these changes are designing youth policies and programmes.The research finds that, in general terms, the interval between childhood and the assumption of adult roles is now lengthening.
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  European values in the globalised world

  European Union, 2005

  This report argues that Europe must reform and modernise its policies to preserve its values. Modernisation is essential to continue keep Europe’s historically high levels of prosperity, social cohesion, environmental protection and quality of life.A Europe of dynamism, innovation and openness, exists alongside a Europe of 19 million unemployed, child poverty and slowing growth.
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  Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility: a political economy perspective

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. It looks at links between migration, aging, the economy and politics in sending countries.
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  Globalization and the future of ageing: economic, social and policy implications

  Valencia Forum on Research and Ageing, 2002

  This paper reviews the challenge for an ageing society created by the rise of globalisation, as ageing can no longer be viewed as a ‘national’ problem or issue but one that affects transnational agencies and communities It focuses upon the new policy discourse associated with global ageing, and the implications this carries for social theory on the one hand and social policy on the other.Point
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  Our future pensions and globalisation: an exploration of the issue using the INGENUE model

  Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2001

  Paper argues that the demographic characteristics and disparities of pension schemes will lead to strongly contrasting trends in the supply and demand for capital across the various regions of the world, in this century.The long term trend of demographic ageing across the world stems from the fall in fertility rates and the rise in life expectancy to an advanced age.
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  Cross-Border movements of people

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2000

  This article initially takes a historical look at international labour migration over the past fifty years and draws a distinction between different categories of labour flows in the contemporary world economy.The article stresses the importance of focusing on structural explanations of migration at a macrolevel, to understand the determinants and patterns of migration.

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