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    Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

    Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
    Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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    Economic security arrangements in the context of population ageing in India

    Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2010
    Life expectancy in India is rising steadily.  However, a combination of migration out of rural areas and the continued concentration of the working population in the informal sector, means there is a pressing need for better economic security arrangements for the elderly. Women in particular face specific disadvantages in ensuring their economic security.
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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    The impact of a minimum pension on old age poverty and its budgetary cost. Evidence from Latin America.

    Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, 2010
    Alleviating old age poverty requires a different approach from other age groups. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in Latin America using recent household survey data for 18 countries. The authors:
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    Ageing, human rights and public policies

    CEPAL - ECLAC Database, 2010
    This book examines the ageing phenomenon in Latin American countries from the demographic perspectives, and the guaranteeing of human rights in old-age. The book catches two notable facts about the region: population is ageing faster in the region than it did historically in the developed countries; and poor coverage and quality of social protection systems are dominating.
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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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    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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