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The impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades: conditional cash transfer program on health and related outcomes for the aging in Mexico
Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2011Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment. This paper examines health and work impacts on the ageing for the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades programme, which is an anti-poverty and human resource investment programme.DocumentTelling their stories: the direct impact of social cash transfers on the lives of ultra poor families in Malawi
United Nations Children's Fund, 2007This story-telling publication raises awareness about the impact of cash transfers on the lives of the most vulnerable children in Malawi. It forms one part of an advocacy package on the Malawi's pilot social cash transfer scheme, together with a website, factsheet, Q&A and documentary.DocumentYoung lives, international study of childhood poverty - working papers
Young Lives, 2011Working 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.DocumentYoung lives, international study of childhood poverty - policy papers
Young Lives, 2011Policy papers from the Young Lives study:DocumentLiving arrangements of the elderly in China
RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 2011Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially in light of the population policy implemented since the late 1970s, and rural young people moving away from parents into cities in large numbers.DocumentOverview of available policies and legislation, data and research, and institutional arrangements relating to older persons - progress since Madrid
HelpAge International, 2011The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration (Madrid Plan) were adopted in April 2002 by the 159 governments which attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid. Priority Directions decided upon are: 1. Older persons and development; 2. Advancing health and well-being into old age; and 3. Ensuring enabling and supportive environments.DocumentPoverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older householdsDocumentEffects of Argentina’s social security reform on labor markets and poverty
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2011In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accounts in the pension system over wages, employment and poverty.DocumentSustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?
Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date?DocumentOff the grid: exploring the expanding informal economy and threats to old-age social protection in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
HelpAge International, 2011Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan face the simultaneous challenges of a ballooning informal labour force and an ageing population. Pension systems will have difficulty providing adequate social protection to future generations of older people, especially those without formal labour records.Pages