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    Population aging: facts, challenges, and responses

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2011
    Population ageing does raise some fundamentally new challenges, but these changes also bring some new opportunities. This article explores some potentially useful responses from government and business to the challenges posed by ageing.
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    Pension coverage in Latin America: trends and determinants

    World Bank, 2012
    Social security systems coverage in Latin America has become a central issue in the policy debate, not only in most of the countries in the region, but also around the world. This document presents an analysis of pension coverage trends in Latin America, using empirical data from 18 Latin American countries. Findings are as follows:
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    2012 world population data sheet

    Population Reference Bureau, 2012
    This report informs people around the world about issues related to population, health, and the environment. The paper presents a complex picture of countries still struggling with economic challenges and inequalities, while others are making significant headway.Some notable findings of the report are that:
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    Fertility and family well-being effects of an aggressive family planning policy in Peru in the 1990s

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
    In the mid-1990s, the Peruvian government initiated an aggressive family planning programme to address widespread poverty in the country, and female sterilisation was a publicly stated element of the programme. This paper tries to find out who was affected by the sterilisation policy, and what impact the policy had on fertility and household well-being.
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    Global ageing – its implications for growth, decent work and social protection beyond 2015

    HelpAge International, 2012
    Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recognise their needs for secure livelihoods, and their rights to decent work and social protection.
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    The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement

    2010
    An analysis of the determinants of care provision, looking at informal care, professional home-based care and formal nursing care.
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    The future of the public sector pensions: final report

    Pension Policy Institute, UK, 2010
    This report on the future of the public sector pension schemes identifies policy objectives that any Government considering further reforms to the public sector pensions might aim to address, identifies a set of possible further reforms for the public sector pension schemes that the Government could consider.
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    The impact of population ageing on international capital flows

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010
    This paper studies the relationship between demographical factors and international capital flows. It analyses the impact of ageing on foreign direct investments (FDI) and foreign portfolio investments (FPI) on a bilateral level. Results suggest that the current and future age structure of the nation has significant effect on current international capital flows.
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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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    Swaziland old age grant impact assessment

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Cash transfers are increasingly seen as a popular form of social protection, representing a solution to reducing absolute poverty and food insecurity for vulnerable groups. The Swaziland Old Age Grant (OAG) was introduced in 2005 as a universal grant to all Swazi citizens over 60 years of age, many of whom are caring for orphaned children in their households.

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