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    The Social Protection Index: assessing results for Asia and the Pacific

    Asian Development Bank, 2013
    Strengthening social protection represents a priority contribution to achieving inclusive growth, one of the three main pillars of the Asian Development Bank (ADB’s) Strategy 2020. This report analyses comprehensive 2009 data on government social protection programmes in 35 countries in Asia and the Pacific.
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    Population ageing in Ghana: research gaps and the way forward

    Journal of Aging Research, 2010
    Although Ghana can still be classified as a having youthful population, reductions in fertility and mortality have resulted in increase in both the proportion and absolute number of elderly population. With the proportion of the elderly population currently at 7.2 percent, Ghana has one of the highest proportions of persons aged 60+ years in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Pension coverage in China and the expansion of the New Rural Social Pension Scheme

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In just over 60 years, the pension system in China has changed from a residual policy issue in the shadow of major economic reform, to one that is now intrinsically linked to socio-economic transformation in China and underpins the transition from an export-driven to a consumption-based economy.
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    The changing well-being of Thai elderly: An update from the 2011 Survey of Older Persons in Thailand

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2013
    Population ageing and the well-being of older persons are major emerging challenges for families, communities and government in Thailand as in much of Asia.
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    How best to measure pension adequacy

    Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2013
    Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the fore.
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    Social Protection of the Elderly in Tanzania: Current Status and Future Possibilities

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2011
    This brief summarises the findings of a study on social protection of elderly in Tanzania. The study began by analysing the current status of living arrangements and material well-being of Tanzanians over 60 years of age. It then assessed the affordability of a universal pension for all persons over age 60 or 65 years, set at the food poverty line.
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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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    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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