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Social protection for older Kenyans: options for implementing the National Social Protection Policy
HelpAge International, 2012There has been growing recognition in Kenya in recent years that social protection is essential for achieving poverty reduction and inclusive growth.DocumentPensions, poverty and wellbeing: the impact of pensions in South Africa and Brazil, a comparative study
HelpAge International, 2012Brazil and South Africa are leading countries in their respective regions in ensuring extensive coverage of pensions, and particularly social pensions. This briefing summarises the main findings from longitudinal research on ageing, wellbeing and development, and the role of social pensions in the two countries.DocumentSocial protection floors and pension systems: the role of a "citizen's pension"
HelpAge International, 2012There is increasing recognition of the role of social protection floors in eradicating poverty, reducing inequality and sustaining equitable economic growth in developing countries.DocumentThe changing well-being of Thai elderly: An update from the 2011 Survey of Older Persons in Thailand
Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2013Population ageing and the well-being of older persons are major emerging challenges for families, communities and government in Thailand as in much of Asia.DocumentHow best to measure pension adequacy
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, 2013Though 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.DocumentWorld Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour
International Labour Organization, 2013What can be done to ensure more – and faster – progress in tackling child labour? This report argues that child labour is driven in part by household vulnerabilities associated with poverty, risk and shocks, and that social security is critical to mitigating these vulnerabilities.DocumentPredicting the cost and impact of cash transfer programmes: the power of microsimulation tools
Oxford Policy Management, 2013Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty, particularly in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However pilot schemes are not always modelled at their design stage to estimate whether the cash transfers would have an affordable impact on poverty if scaled up.DocumentImpact of population aging on Asia’s future growth
Asian Development Bank, 2011Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that collectively make up the bulk of the region’s population and output.DocumentThe situation of older persons in Myanmar: Results from the 2012 Survey of Older Persons
HelpAge International, 2013Myanmar’s population is beginning to age rapidly. According to UN projections, by 2050 older people will comprise a quarter of Myanmar’s total population. Shortly after 2035, persons aged 60 and older will outnumber children under age 15.DocumentSocial security coverage extension in the BRICS: a comparative study on the extension of coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa
International Social Security Association, 2013The five countries of the BRICS, Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, are facing some common challenges with regard to ageing of their populations, urbanisation, vulnerability to environmental shocks, increasing labour market fragmentation, growing income disparity, and the need to more fully exploit and leverage information and communications technologies.Pages