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    Social panorama of Latin America 2009

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
    This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different states of the region vary in their preparedness to protect at-risk groups in an economic downturn. The paper underlines these findings:
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    Social protection policy: responses to older people’s needs in Zanzibar

    HelpAge International, 2009
    Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors.  But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing family structures, migration and general poverty have eroded traditional patterns of support, and even where support exists, it is normally inadequate.
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    National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)

    NCLC works to defend the rights of low-income consumers and to advance economic justice.
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    What drives health care spending? Can we know whether population aging is a ‘red herring’?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    Many studies argue that projections of health care spending should be based on the assumption that age-specific health care spending should be assumed to decline because of reductions in age-specific mortality rates. This paper contradicts that hypothesis, considering its suggestion unjustified.
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    What can we do about pensions?

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2009
    This paper sets out some of the problems with Canada's pension system and outlines some of the options that have been proposed to deal with them.
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    Subprime revisited: how reverse mortgage lenders put older homeowners’ equity at risk

    National Consumer Law Center, 2009
    This paper claims that the consumer protections built into the old reverse mortgages programme are being eclipsed by the drive to exploit senior home equity by major banks and insurance companies, among others. The paper indicates that this push threatens the financial well-being of America’s seniors due to its maximised loan volume that targets senior homeowners.
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    Constant crisis: perceptions of vulnerability and social protection in the Kyrgyz Republic

    HelpAge International, 2009
    In 2008, the Kyrgyz Republic experienced significant increases in food and fuel price, massively affecting  the most vulnerable populations. In response, the World Bank announced a US$10 million grant directed at topping up the existing cash transfer mechanism (the Unified Monthly Benefit, or UMB).
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    The impact of population ageing on the Czech economy

    Czech National Bank, Czech Republic, 2009
    The Czech Republic is facing a population-ageing phenomenon, and its demographic structure is expected to change dramatically, which might have a significant impact on the Czech economy. This paper analyses the potential effects of the expected demographic changes on aggregate economic performance taking into account alternative fiscal policy setups.
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    Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform

    CESifo, 2009
    Pension reform is nowadays in the forefront of the political agenda of many European countries. Using ireland as an example country, this paper analyses the different forces that can affect people’s evaluation of the state pension system. The main focus of the paper is to answer the following questions:
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    Headship of older persons in the context of HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa

    Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 2009
    This paper examines older persons’ living arrangements in an area with 32% HIV-prevalence in South Africa. The paper concentrates on headship as a measure of position, and explores how households’ composition and experience of a death differ across headship types.

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