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  China’s rapidly aging population: program and policy implications

  Population Reference Bureau, 2010

  The proportion of elderly citizens in China will continue to grow very quickly, as a combination of China’s one-child policy and low mortality takes effect, increasing the stress on an already troubled health care system. Only 40 percent of elderly males and just 13 percent of elderly females receive any kind of support from a pension:
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  Fertility impact of social transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa – what about pensions?

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010

  Whilst the impact on fertility of child-related cash transfer in developing countries is fiercely debated, the author of this paper argues that little attention is paid to the fertility impact of old-age cash transfers.
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  The impact of the financial crisis on defined benefit plans and the need for counter-cyclical funding regulations

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010

  This paper discusses the impact of the crisis on DB pension schemes and the temporary responses taken by regulators to help ease financially strained plan sponsors. It also presents suggestions to governments and policy-makers for making funding regulations more counter-cyclical in nature, in order to strengthen the security of DB benefits and help to maintain future DB plans.
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  Achieving income security in old age for all Tanzanians: a study into the feasibility of a universal social pension

  HelpAge International, 2010

  In Tanzania, poverty rates amongst households containing an older person are 22.4 per cent higher than the national poverty rate.  In the past, security in old age was provided through a range of social protection mechanisms based on the extended family and community structures, but these traditional mechanisms are increasingly unable to cope.
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  Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection.
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  The social and economic effects of the Disability Grant for people with disabilities and their households: a qualitative study in KwaZulu Natal Province

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2007

  People with disabilities (PWD) face physical and attitudinal barriers to participation in education, the labour market and development processes. In South Africa, there is a need for appropriate social assistance for PWD. Currently this is done through a means-tested cash transfer known as the Disability Grant (DG).
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  Social protection and climate change adaption

  Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2008

  Social protection initiatives are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches, and they are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider short and long-term shocks andstresses associated with climate change.
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  Social protection in Africa: where next?

  Centre for Social Protection, 2010

  Has social protection in sub-Saharan Africa lost its way? Many countries now have social protection strategies. Emergency cash transfers have displaced or complemented food aid, some large-scale programmes have been introduced, others have been consolidated.
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  The Chinese pension system – first results on assessing the reform options

  Economic Commission for Europe, UN, 2010

  The Chinese population, totalling 1.3 billion, is ageing fast. The Chinese pension system covers only 55% of urban employees and reaches a very small part of the rural population. 
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  Advancing child-sensitive social protection

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2010

  There is a growing body of evidence from a range of developing countries that social protection programmes can effectively increase the nutritional, health and educational status of children and reduce their risk of abuse and exploitation.

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