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    Older Women In India - A Note by Agewell Foundation

    Agewell Foundation, 2012
    Briefing paper looking at major concerns of Indian women, including destitution, alienation and isolation, financial and social insecurity and medical issues.
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    The extension of social security coverage in developing countries

    Department of Economics, Towson University, 2011
    Individuals in developing countries face a shortage of formal risk-sharing instruments and therefore rely largely on informal cash transfers from family members for insurance purposes. This paper studies the effects of introducing a social pension program to elderly informal sector workers in developing countries who lack formal risk-sharing mechanisms against income and longevity risk.
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    Population aging: some economic and social consequences of population aging

    Institute for Research on Public Policy, Canada, 2008
    The continued participation of older people in the economic life is a key factor to their own well-being as well as that of their nations on the whole. Covering Canada specifically, this paper looks at possible and appropriate policies that can accommodate the demographic fact of life.
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    Population aging: facts, challenges, and responses

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2011
    Population ageing does raise some fundamentally new challenges, but these changes also bring some new opportunities. This article explores some potentially useful responses from government and business to the challenges posed by ageing.
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    2012 world population data sheet

    Population Reference Bureau, 2012
    This report informs people around the world about issues related to population, health, and the environment. The paper presents a complex picture of countries still struggling with economic challenges and inequalities, while others are making significant headway.Some notable findings of the report are that:
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    Fertility and family well-being effects of an aggressive family planning policy in Peru in the 1990s

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
    In the mid-1990s, the Peruvian government initiated an aggressive family planning programme to address widespread poverty in the country, and female sterilisation was a publicly stated element of the programme. This paper tries to find out who was affected by the sterilisation policy, and what impact the policy had on fertility and household well-being.
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    Global ageing – its implications for growth, decent work and social protection beyond 2015

    HelpAge International, 2012
    Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recognise their needs for secure livelihoods, and their rights to decent work and social protection.
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    Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2012
    Formal old age care is a supplement to informal old age care and not its substitute, and it is increasingly being felt that the two forms of care should be woven together. This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension debate and related policies in India.
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    Swaziland old age grant impact assessment

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Cash transfers are increasingly seen as a popular form of social protection, representing a solution to reducing absolute poverty and food insecurity for vulnerable groups. The Swaziland Old Age Grant (OAG) was introduced in 2005 as a universal grant to all Swazi citizens over 60 years of age, many of whom are caring for orphaned children in their households.
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    Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    Two aspects of ageing of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean are of particular concern. One is that the population is ageing faster in the region than it did historically in developed countries.

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