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Demographic transition and the regulatory shortcomings of Brazil’s social security
National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil, 2011In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represent 23% of total population, while the workforce will be shrinking.DocumentFirst-round impacts of the 2008 Chilean pension system reform
University of Michigan Retirement Research Center, 2011Chile’s innovative privatised pension system has been lauded as possible model for Social Security system overhauls in other countries, yet it has also been critiqued for not including a strong safety net for the uncovered sector. In response, the Bachelet government in 2008 implemented reforms to rectify this shortcoming.DocumentThe impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades: conditional cash transfer program on health and related outcomes for the aging in Mexico
Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2011Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment. This paper examines health and work impacts on the ageing for the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades programme, which is an anti-poverty and human resource investment programme.DocumentTelling their stories: the direct impact of social cash transfers on the lives of ultra poor families in Malawi
United Nations Children's Fund, 2007This story-telling publication raises awareness about the impact of cash transfers on the lives of the most vulnerable children in Malawi. It forms one part of an advocacy package on the Malawi's pilot social cash transfer scheme, together with a website, factsheet, Q&A and documentary.DocumentYoung lives, international study of childhood poverty - working papers
Young Lives, 2011Working papers from the Young Lives study.Papers below date from 2010-2011. Please see the site for further selection of papers dating back to 2002.DocumentYoung lives, international study of childhood poverty - policy papers
Young Lives, 2011Policy papers from the Young Lives study:DocumentLiving arrangements of the elderly in China
RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 2011Recent increases in Chinese elderly living alone or only with a spouse has raised concerns about elderly support, especially in light of the population policy implemented since the late 1970s, and rural young people moving away from parents into cities in large numbers.DocumentOverview of available policies and legislation, data and research, and institutional arrangements relating to older persons - progress since Madrid
HelpAge International, 2011The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration (Madrid Plan) were adopted in April 2002 by the 159 governments which attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid. Priority Directions decided upon are: 1. Older persons and development; 2. Advancing health and well-being into old age; and 3. Ensuring enabling and supportive environments.DocumentPoverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older householdsDocumentEffects of Argentina’s social security reform on labor markets and poverty
Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2011In 1994, Argentina introduced Pensions Reform and Unemployment Benefits as a major reform component to its social security system. This paper analyses the effect of introducing new individual accounts in the pension system over wages, employment and poverty.Pages